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Thursday, February 19, 2004Flu and pneumonia accounted for 10 percent of all deaths during influenza's peak in late December, said Ann Moen, an influenza specialist of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's just shy of the flu's death toll in 1999, the last time an H3N2 strain predominated. The CDC knows of 134 flu-associated deaths among children, 82 of them in youngsters under 5, Moen said. In the 1990s, there was an average of 92 deaths a year among children under 5. That squares with my experience. We had a fast and furious stream of cases for 2 to 3 weeks, as usual for an average flu season, then it died its natural death, as it always does. It just came in December instead of January. posted by Sydney on 2/19/2004 08:28:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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