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Tracking the next pandemic: Avian Flu Talk

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    Posted: January 30 2015 at 5:01pm
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Some new evidence this is a particularly bad flu season: Flu-related hospitalizations of the elderly are the highest since the government started tracking that statistic nine years ago.

About 198 out of every 100,000 people 65 and older have been hospitalized with flu-related illness 

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