The second wave of influenza reaches the offices of doctors and urgent care clinics throughout the country, according to the latest national influenza data.
“Seasonal influenza activity is still high and continues to increase throughout the country.” Disease control and prevention centers I mentioned Friday.
New cases coincide with patients who have been ill with influenza several weeks ago, and they are now witnessing common complications. Up to a third of the influenza patients in the hospital develop bacterial pneumonia within a few weeks of their acute disease.
Positive influenza tests in height
The Disease Control Center said that nearly a third of the influenza tests returned positive during the week ending February 1, compared to a quarter of the tests in the previous week.
The agency estimated that there have been at least 24 million disease so far this season.
It seems that more people get sick.
An analysis of CDC data shows that influenza -like diseases in doctors ’offices and urgent care centers appear higher than they were in at least 28 years.
Nobody can say the reason, as influenza seasons vary greatly from year to year.
“I don’t think we know where the summits are, which is somewhat worrying,” said Dr. Cameron Wolf, an infectious disease expert and medical professor at the Duke University University in Durham, North Carolina.
To date this season, 13,000 influenza people have died. With the high influenza rates, the season was not accomplished.
Dr. Peter Hotz, Dean of the National School of Equatorial Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine in Baylor, co -director of Texas, Dean of the National School of Equity Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine and Associate Director of Texas, Dean of the National School of Equatorial Medicine at the College of Medicine in Baylor and co -director of Texas, Dean of the School National Petal Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine and co -manager in Texas, Dean of the National School of Equatorial Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and co -manager in Texas, Dean of the National School of Equatorial Medicine, at least at least the Children’s Hospital Center for Checks Development. “Maybe we look at a death season from 20 to 30,000. This is very important.”
Ten child medicine deaths have been introduced in the national database this week, which has raised the total so far this season to 57.
Last year was especially brutal 207 dies of pediatrics were reported.
Dr. Todd Rice, a professor of medicine in the Department of Allergy, Pulmonary and Care at the Medical Center at the University of Vanderbelt in Nashville, said that the current increase in influenza may mean “Double hit” on hospitals. “It will interfere significantly with the increase in bacterial pneumonia that we see routinely after influenza peaks.”
This means that more family, more nurses are needed and more ventilation for patients who face a problem of breathing due to influenza or other diseases.
During any influenza season, there may be several strains that spin. Influenza strains – which can cause more severe symptoms – constitute almost all cases at the present time, especially H1N1 and H3N2. There were no new human flu in the past week.
But the Center for Disease Control has reported the only season of the season so far for a person who has a variable variable: A (H1N2) V. (V. only means that it is a well -known variable of influenza virus and is not considered new.)
The Disease Control Center said that the patient, a minor, was patient and was hospitalized in Iowa during the January 18 week. The child has recovered since then.
This particular variable was also Discover last year in a child near the swine farm In Pennsylvania. That was the child, who was vomiting and had a fever, cough, and ciliary, in the hospital before the improvement.
This variable infection is not associated with the persistent influenza of birds.
No disease has been identified between the patient’s close contacts. No transition was determined from a person to a person linked to this condition.
External experts said they were not surprised that the 2024 patient lived near the farm, as H1N2 is often spread among pigs. The last child gets sick, however, he had no known contact with animals.
“It is not unusual for influenza variables to float from time to time,” said Ketlin, an epidemic specialist at the Johns Hopkins Health Security Center, adding.