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New Flu Strains Threaten Public as CDC Admits to Flu Medicine Shortage\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

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<\/center>In what may be one of the most severe flu seasons<\/a> in recent history, the CDC\u00a0has warned more is to come.\u00a0 This week, CDC officials say\u00a0due to the influx of\u00a0the widespread flu season,\u00a0there are shortages<\/a> of the drug used to treat the flu. While the CDC is working to address the \u201cspot shortages\u201d, it does not bode well for the public who are already dealing with a severe flu season and one that could potentially get worse with new flu strains emerging.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if the hopeful assessment by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bears out, there will still be an additional 11 weeks to 13 weeks of flu circulating across the country.\u00a0\u201cIn general, we see things peaking right about now, but that means there is still a whole lot more flu to go,\u201d Dan Jernigan, [director of the influenza division at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases]\u00a0 said. \u2018In addition, there are other strains of influenza still to show up that could be a major cause of disease.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

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That may already be happening. The CDC is starting to see infections caused by the H1N1 strain of the virus in states grappling with high levels of the H3N2 strain, the predominant version this season. In addition, Jernigan said,\u00a0yet another type of flu\u00a0caused by influenza B viruses\u00a0is expected to show up later in the season.<\/em><\/p>\n

H3N2 has compounded the damage usually wrought by the annual flu outbreak. It\u2019s known for both its severity and ability to evade the protection provided by vaccinations that are typically more effective against the other types of flu.\u201d (Source<\/a>)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hospitals Scrambling to Limit Exposure<\/strong><\/p>\n

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New Flu Strains Threaten Public as CDC Admits to Flu Medicine Shortage\u00a0 In what may be one of the most severe flu seasons in recent history, the CDC\u00a0has warned more is to come.\u00a0 This week, CDC officials say\u00a0due to the influx of\u00a0the widespread flu season,\u00a0there are shortages of the drug used to treat the flu. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[119,121,1697,11955,3364,6787,12602],"class_list":["post-29821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-cdc","tag-center-for-disease-control","tag-flu","tag-influenza","tag-medicine","tag-ready-nutrition","tag-tess-pennington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29822,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29821\/revisions\/29822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}