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Flu still widespread in New York

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    Posted: May 16 2016 at 9:01am
The question is why in the month of May are many people still very ill with the flu in New York? This has been going on for months and we should be nearing the end of the flu season. If the vaccine was such a good match, why is flu still thriving in New England?

For one reason, people are coming down with this multiple times. There is very little done tracking relapses and what should be a few day infection turning into months of misery. Some cannot shake the deep cough and even nausea. It would seem that recently it is always "it has peaked already" while before it was at its most intense in December and this year it was in March.

We near a time when perhaps for the first time in history flu will still be widespread in an area and they will stop reporting it.

Still 8.1% of the specimens are positive for the flu and despite stating over and over it is the common strain which was in the vaccine, only 37.1% was Influenza A versus 62.9% was Influenza B.

Yamagata lineage 37 (45.7%) 3,136 (43.5%)
Victoria lineage 17 (21.0%) 1,386 (19.2%)
Lineage not performed 27 (33.3%) 2,681 (37.2%)

As you can see in 1/3 of the test they did not even check to see what strain it was.



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There is a precedent for flu spreading in the spring, Med. It happened in 1918

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Originally posted by jacksdad jacksdad wrote:

There is a precedent for flu spreading in the spring, Med. It happened in 1918



Well that's not all that reassuring, Jackdad. A real concern here is if the Flu Season starts becoming perennial - all year.  Worse in the winter, but never goes away. So at the end of May, all the reports stop and we still have it throughout the summer. This happened with Norovirus. It started as a winter problem and turned into 7/11/365-366.  I was hoping someone would pick up on the fact that currently there was more Influenza B then Influenza A - and the prevalent strain Yamagata - was it in the vaccine?

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Originally posted by Medclinician Medclinician wrote:

Well that's not all that reassuring, Jackdad




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