This flu season in Georgia and the South is shaping up to be harsher than the last one.
Georgia is one of seven states overall — most of them in the Southeast — that have reported “widespread’’ flu activity, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, tracking the week ending Dec. 2.
“Flu is increasing. We’re seeing a pretty steep increase in influenza activity across the U.S. but especially in the South,” Brendan Flannery, a co-author of the new report and an epidemiologist in the CDC’s flu division, told CNN.
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