The level of flu activity -- high, moderate, low or minimal -- is an indication of what percentage of outpatient visits in a state are for a flulike illness, compared with months when there is no flu. A map for the week ending Dec. 29.
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Chances are that you or someone you know has been chained to the bed recently with fever, fatigue, sore throat and muscle aches.
That's because the current flu season is turning out to be a bad one, affecting more people than usual, starting earlier and covering a broader geographical area. Government health experts say 18 children, under age 18, have died because of the seasonal flu and 2,257 people had been hospitalized with flu symptoms through the end of 2012.
"The sense that everybody has is that there's been an extremely rapid increase in influenza," says Trish Perl,co-leader of a flu ...
