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Deaths by Flu up; too Few Get Shots, Says Center for Disease Control.

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| January 08, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 1999 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

By M.A.J. McKenna, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 8--The number of deaths caused each year by influenza has more than tripled in 25 years and could continue to soar, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.

In the United States, the flu now kills three times more people than AIDS each year.

"Influenza and other respiratory viruses have been under-appreciated health problems," said the CDC's Dr. Keiji Fukuda. "People tend to think of them as causes of things like colds, but they are really major causes of serious illnesses and death in the United States."

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