"Virginia reports widespread flu outbreak
Virginia is the first state in the nation to report a widespread outbreak of the flu, and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the chronic winter illness might spread rapidly after a relatively slow start this season.
"We could really get slammed in two weeks," Anthony Fiore, a CDC epidemiologist, responded when asked whether much of the nation might be spared this year. "Oh, no, it'll get here."
Although the flu season generally begins with the onset of colder weather in October and November, in some years it peaks later....
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