A Particularly Nasty Flu Season.
The United States is in the engross of a very nasty flu season, federal health officials said Friday, due - in humongous part - to a strain of the virus that's hitting the elderly and children mainly hard. That strain is called H3N2 flu, and it's not a good match to the strains in this year's flu vaccine. As a result, thousands of hoi polloi are being hospitalized and 26 children have died from flu so far, Dr Tom Frieden, top banana of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a twelve press briefing. "Years that have H3N2 predominance be biased to have more hospitalizations and more deaths.
Frieden said hospitalization rates for flu have risen to 92 per 100000 folk this season, primarily due to the H3N2 strain. This compares to a typical year of 52 hospitalizations per 100000 people. In an run-of-the-mill year, more than 200000 people are hospitalized for flu and the digit of children's deaths varies from as few as 30 to as many as 170 or more, CDC officials said. Although it's the halfway of the flu season, the CDC continues to recommend that everybody 6 months and older get a flu shot.
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Drinking Increasing Among Girls And Young Women In The USA
Drinking Increasing Among Girls And Young Women In The USA.
Binge drinking is a significant stew all women and girls in the United States, with one in five female tipsy followers students and one in eight young women reporting reiterative episodes, federal health officials reported Tuesday. For women, binge drinking means downing four or more drinks on an occasion tab thrilpil. Every month, about 14 million women and girls binge go on a toot at least three times, according to the promulgate from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
And women who binge guzzle undistinguished about six drinks at a time, the put out said. "Although binge drinking is even more of a conundrum middle men and boys, binge drinking is an superior and unrecognized women's health issue," CDC director Dr Thomas Frieden, said during a noontime press conference. And the consequences for women, who transform alcohol differently than men, are serious, Frieden said. "There are about 23000 deaths centre of women and girls each year due to drinking too much alcohol," he said. "Most of those deaths are from binge drinking".
Binge drinking also increases the jeopardize for many vigorousness problems such as mamma cancer, sexually transmitted diseases, compassion disease and unintended pregnancy, he added. In addition, fertile women who binge drink expose their cosset to high levels of alcohol that can lead to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and unwonted infant death syndrome, he noted.
Frieden acclaimed that the number of adult women who binge drink hasn't changed much in the old times 15 years. But changing patterns surrounded by young people mean that high school girls are binge drinking nearly as often as boys, Frieden explained. "While the toll among high school boys fell considerably in fresh decades, it has remained relatively constant among violent school girls, which is why there is hardly any difference at this point between boys and girls in drinking," he said.
Binge drinking is a significant stew all women and girls in the United States, with one in five female tipsy followers students and one in eight young women reporting reiterative episodes, federal health officials reported Tuesday. For women, binge drinking means downing four or more drinks on an occasion tab thrilpil. Every month, about 14 million women and girls binge go on a toot at least three times, according to the promulgate from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
And women who binge guzzle undistinguished about six drinks at a time, the put out said. "Although binge drinking is even more of a conundrum middle men and boys, binge drinking is an superior and unrecognized women's health issue," CDC director Dr Thomas Frieden, said during a noontime press conference. And the consequences for women, who transform alcohol differently than men, are serious, Frieden said. "There are about 23000 deaths centre of women and girls each year due to drinking too much alcohol," he said. "Most of those deaths are from binge drinking".
Binge drinking also increases the jeopardize for many vigorousness problems such as mamma cancer, sexually transmitted diseases, compassion disease and unintended pregnancy, he added. In addition, fertile women who binge drink expose their cosset to high levels of alcohol that can lead to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and unwonted infant death syndrome, he noted.
Frieden acclaimed that the number of adult women who binge drink hasn't changed much in the old times 15 years. But changing patterns surrounded by young people mean that high school girls are binge drinking nearly as often as boys, Frieden explained. "While the toll among high school boys fell considerably in fresh decades, it has remained relatively constant among violent school girls, which is why there is hardly any difference at this point between boys and girls in drinking," he said.
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