NEW YORK — It’s early, but the current flu season is shaping up to be gentler than last winter’s unusually brutal one, U.S. health officials said. In most parts of the country, most illnesses right now are being caused by a flu strain that leads to fewer hospitalizations and deaths as the kind of flu that dominated a year ago, according to officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
U.s. Flu Season Appears Milder, One Year After Brutal One
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer, The Columbian
Fri, 01/11/2019 - 10:07am
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