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Hundreds of thousands of Americans usually stay home at some point during the winter battling fever, aches and pains — all the result of a normal flu season. But this flu season is clearly marching to a different drummer.<\/p>\nHundreds of thousands of Americans usually stay home at some point during the winter battling fever, aches and pains — all the result of a normal flu season. But this flu season is clearly marching to a different drummer.<\/p>\n
The H1N1 swine flu came and mostly went and seasonal flu has barely come at all in the U.S., the WSJ says<\/a> in a survey of the flu front this morning. It’s a puzzle why there isn’t more swine flu around, given how many people haven’t been infected or vaccinated, according to the experts. <\/p>\n That said, another H1N1 wave may be in the wings and could come soon. “We’ve had peaks [of flu] as late as May, so we’re not out of the woods yet,” a CDC influenza official told the WSJ. But future outbreaks aren’t likely to be as large as the one last fall, say some flu trackers.<\/p>\n The lack of punch from seasonal flu is also a mystery. One theory, the WSJ says, is that that people infected with H1N1 swine flu may produce a chemical in their bodies that protects them against other flu viruses.<\/p>\n The CDC is still pushing swine-flu vaccines. About 155 million doses of H1N1 vaccine have been distributed this flu season, and about 86 million people have been vaccinated — a few million less so far than normally get vaccinated for seasonal flu, according to numbers cited by the WSJ. Children under 10 who have only had one dose should get a second for full protection, the CDC says.<\/p>\n Nancy Cox, the CDC’s influenza chief, says pandemic H1N1 virus is likely to eventually become a seasonal strain, though it isn’t one yet. An overview from the CDC is here<\/a>. Hundreds of thousands of Americans usually stay home at some point during the winter battling fever, aches and pains — all the result of a normal flu season. But this flu season is clearly marching to a different drummer. The H1N1 swine flu came and mostly went and seasonal flu has barely come at all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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