Influenza

Flu Virus Hits United States With a Vengeance

Published in Vaccine Weekly, January 19th, 2000

The flu, which struck the Western United States hard in December 1999, has arrived like a storm along the East Coast, filling hospital waiting rooms and doctors' offices with ailing patients.

"It's bad all over the country," said Dr. Robert McNamara, chief of emergency medicine at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. "The flu shot apparently is not doing its job, and from all reports, it could be one of the worst seasons we've seen in years."

Patients at emergency rooms nationwide have found out as much in the last couple of weeks. At McNamara's hospital, patients line the halls on gurneys, waiting for rooms. Others huddle around rows of...

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