Experts still hope the current flu epidemic will not exceed that of 2014-15 but the four main ones flu strains circulating for three months across the United States have already caused the deaths of 2,500 people, including 20 children.
The dominant strain currently circulating is a strain of influenza A called H3N2, which had already circulated during the winter of 2014-2015. At the time, the flu had caused 56,000 deaths, 710,000 hospitalizations and 36.5 million symptomatic cases, recalled Dr Dan Jernigan, director of the influenza division at the Federal Center for the Control and Prevention of Human Disease. United States.
Tents set up in hospital car parks
Hospitals in California are overrun with flu cases and emergency rooms are so overwhelmed that patients are assessed in medical tents set up in parking lots, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Same record number of influenza cases in Texas and Florida. At least 26 of the 49 states in the United States with influenza have reported high influenza activity.
In France, to date 70 people are died from the flu, including 29 aged 15 to 64.
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