{"id":17549,"date":"2019-03-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/11\/cdc-flu-season-may-have-peaked\/"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:10:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:10:04","slug":"cdc-flu-season-may-have-peaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/11\/cdc-flu-season-may-have-peaked\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC: Flu Season May Have Peaked"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Milder strain of flu has been most common cause of cases this flu season<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>MONDAY, March 11, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; It looks like the flu season has peaked in the United States, though there has been a recent rise in the number of cases involving a more severe flu strain.<\/p>\n<p>Flu was widespread in 48 states last week, down from 49 the previous week, according to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention update released Friday. CDC experts believe there is a 90 percent chance the flu season has peaked, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>A milder strain of flu has been the most common cause of cases this flu season. But during the last two weeks, about 60 percent of flu virus samples tested were a strain called Type A H3N2, which tends to cause more hospitalizations and deaths, especially in the elderly, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>There have been 20,000 to 30,000 flu-related deaths in the United States so far this winter, about 300,000 flu-related hospitalizations, and around 25 million flu illnesses, according to the CDC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/d11e713ca98749219126f6cf4fbf2f43\" target=\"_new\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/weekly\/summary.htm\" target=\"_new\">More Information: CDC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milder strain of flu has been most common cause of cases this flu season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-17549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}