If you haven’t had a flu shot but this year, get 1. This from the CDC, which issued an urgent contact for flu shots today, warning that this year’s flu season is turning out to be specifically deadly and still has weeks or even months to go.
“Flu can be serious for anyone, and it can destroy,” stated Centers for Condition Control (CDC) director Tom Frieden, M.D. “Vaccination is the single most crucial point you can do to shield your self.”
The CDC is calling for flu shots for everybody except babies beneath six months, which includes pregnant women. The flu can destroy a healthy little one in as tiny as 3 days, CDC officials warned in a report issued in the October 28 issue of Pediatrics.
This year’s greatest flu risk is the H1N1 virus, informally acknowledged as swine flu, a virulent strain of the virus that triggered a globally pandemic in 2009.
Flu virus information exhibiting the prevalence of H1N1 (swine flu) Source: CDC
Far more worrisome is who’s getting sick – simply because it’s not the elderly and infirm, as you might count on. Alternatively, a lot more than 60 % of individuals hospitalized were amongst the ages of 18 and 64, in accordance to CDC reports published right now in this week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). And a scary 60 percent of flu deaths have been among these 25 to 65.
This is a big change from past flu seasons, in which adults beneath 65 have manufactured up just 35-45 percent of people critically unwell enough to be hospitalized.
Unfortunately, it’s this population group that’s also least likely to get flu shots, officials say, prompting their strongly worded public call for vaccination.
Today’s numbers come from a nationwide sampling of 122 U.S cities, but the CDC also issued a unique report for California, in which the flu has been notably deadly in recent weeks. Flu deaths in California reached 243 on February 8th, the California Department of Public Wellness reported, but also explained the peak season could have passed in the state (in which spring comes early).
Swine Flu Pandemic Revisited?
Most people keep in mind H1Ni from the pandemic of 2009, when swine flu swept the country after the flu strain arrived here in April, really late in the flu season. In that episode, serious illness predominantly involved kids and adults under the age of 24, top the CDC to conclude that older individuals might have developed antibodies to the virus.
Although this year’s numbers aren’t nevertheless closing in on 2009, the fact that it’s youthful and middle-aged adults who are acquiring sick adjustments the picture substantially.
CDC data from the time period September 29, 2013 to February 8, 2014 checklist 571 deaths connected with the flu, and out of people 352, or 62 % were aged 25 to 64. CDC officials expressed concern that part of the difficulty may be that flu vaccination charges among grownups are substantially lower than in the elderly and kids.
Becoming Overweight or Obese a Danger Aspect
The vast majority of the individuals becoming seriously ill or dying from H1Ni this 12 months already suffered from some other health issue, in numerous cases diabetes or obesity, which have been also recognized as chance elements in 2009.
Tomás Aragón, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Berkeley, here delivers a cogent evaluation of who’s on the “blacklist” for susceptibility to H1N1, and why you ought to take oneself off it – by receiving vaccinated.
Urgent CDC Warning Of Threat From H1N1 Swine Flu
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