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CDC Says Vaccination Now is Best Protection Against Slow-Starting Flu Season.(Brief Article)
2001 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention influenza surveillance supports the warning to persons at high risk for complications from influenza that it's not too late to get a flu shot this flu season.
Influenza activity in the United States is increasing; however it has been low and lower than the same period in 1999.
The highest influenza activity was reported in Texas. However, six other states are reporting regional influenza activity: Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, and Tennessee. An additional 35 states reported sporadic influenza activity.
Since October 1, 2000, 14,010 specimens have been tested for influenza virus and 349, or 2%, tested positive; 259, or 74%, were influenza type A. However, in the Pacific region of the United States, influenza type B viruses accounted for most of the positive isolates. So far this season, influenza specimens taken from patients ill with the flu have been well-matched to the current 2000-01 influenza vaccine: A/Panama (H3N2), A/New Caledonia (H1N1), and B/Beijing.
Influenza vaccine for this flu season is in good supply now and can still save lives if administered to high risks persons in January 2001, says the CDC. For each additional million elderly vaccinated this flu season, an estimated 900 deaths and 1,300 hospitalizations can be prevented, according to James Singleton from the CDC's Adult Vaccine Preventable Disease Activity.
CDC estimates that about five million doses of flu vaccine are still available for purchase. In late December 2000, CDC and Aventis Pasteur changed the minimum order to 50 doses, half of the earlier minimum 100 doses, to make it more convenient for smaller health care providers to be able to purchase vaccine ...
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