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Friday, January 11, 2013
Hospital leaders across the state are telling the Alabama Department of Public Health they are seeing a significant number of patients with various strains of the influenza virus.
A press release Thursday says that influenza-like illnesses have been above Alabama’s threshold for significant activity for seven consecutive weeks. According to the Department of Public Health, 53-percent of samples in hospitals have tested positive for some form of the influenza virus.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also reports a growing number of influenza-like illnesses across the country, the most widespread cases being in the eastern section of the continental US.
The CDC and state department of health encourage children, the elderly, those with chronic illnesses, and health care workers to get immunizations from the very contagious respiratory illness.
State health officials say while there may be isolated seasonal shortages of vaccines, state pharmacy director Charles Thomas says “there is no reason to believe that there is any significant long-lasting shortage at this time.”
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