Why This Flu Season Might Be the Worst In a Decade, According to Doctors
Related StoriesWhat’s going on here? “The flu season started early, it started vigorously, and cases and hospitalizations have been surging up as though it were a rocket,” Dr. Schaffner says. “It looks as though it will be on track to be a very severe season, and there’s no sign of a downturn yet.”, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, agrees. “The cases have been going up and up but, the question is, when it will go down?” he says.
This season has been dominated by a form of the flu called influenza B, “which is completely odd,” Dr. Schaffner says, since influenza B doesn’t typically create large outbreaks. H1N1 flu viruses are also starting to rise and “we may have a double-barrel season of influenza B followed by H1N1,” Dr. Schaffner says. “We have all these odd ingredients coming together so that we have, at this juncture, an awful lot of flu with the potential for being as bad as our last bad year, if not worse.
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