{"id":4552,"date":"2025-02-07T17:29:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T17:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/flu-levels-now-highest-since-2009-pandemic-cdc-reports\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T17:29:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T17:29:41","slug":"flu-levels-now-highest-since-2009-pandemic-cdc-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/flu-levels-now-highest-since-2009-pandemic-cdc-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Flu levels now highest since 2009 pandemic, CDC reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Levels of influenza nationwide are now at the highest they have been since the peak of the 2009 swine flu pandemic, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/fluview\/surveillance\/2025-week-05.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">figures<\/a> published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, amid this winter&#8217;s <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/flu-second-peak-vaccine-what-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">second wave<\/a><\/span> of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Close to 8% of visits for respiratory illness to outpatient providers, including urgent cares and doctors offices, reported to the CDC this week were people sick with influenza. That is the worst on record in the CDC&#8217;s influenza surveillance network since late 2009, during the swine flu pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>While most flu seasons usually see a resurgence of infections after the winter holidays, this winter&#8217;s flu wave has now reached unusually high levels compared to recent years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That has driven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/respiratory-viruses\/data\/activity-levels.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">overall levels<\/a> of <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/covid-flu-contagious-period\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">respiratory illness<\/a><\/span> to &#8220;very high&#8221; levels for the first time this season, despite a smaller and now-decreasing wave of COVID-19 in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Other influenza metrics are also far above recent peaks nationwide, including <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/ambulances-delays-plympton-carver-911-calls\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">in emergency rooms<\/a><\/span> and from testing laboratories. Data collected by the CDC from labs found 31.6% of tests last week were positive for influenza, close to double the 18.2% at last season&#8217;s peak.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC says that most states are at &#8220;high&#8221; or &#8220;very high&#8221; levels of influenza activity, though some states may have now reached their peak.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"CDC flu map \" height=\"346\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/07\/727680c8-c153-4a40-9a35-48c39d9f3988\/thumbnail\/620x346\/c543a91e398aa290e4b2f3e874d4efe0\/cdc-flu-map-feb6.jpg?v=d54d11a41ff0a005a15d3290716e6f92 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/07\/727680c8-c153-4a40-9a35-48c39d9f3988\/thumbnail\/1240x692\/1feddc4764ee23da9644251bd2b7ccc2\/cdc-flu-map-feb6.jpg?v=d54d11a41ff0a005a15d3290716e6f92 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">As of Feb. 6, 2025, most states have &#8220;high&#8221; or &#8220;very high&#8221; levels of flu-like illness. This map from the CDC uses the proportion of outpatient visits to health care providers for influenza-like illness (ILI) to measure the level within a state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Influenza infections are &#8220;likely growing&#8221; in 15 states, the agency&#8217;s disease forecasters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/cfa-modeling-and-forecasting\/rt-estimates\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">predict<\/a>, and are either now flat or starting to decline in most other states.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the 2009 pandemic, lab tests around the country suggest cases are still from the usual seasonal variants of the virus, and not a new strain that has spilled over from animals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While farms have been grappling with a record surge of H5N1 bird flu <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/egg-industry-chicken-deaths-bird-flu\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">in poultry<\/a><\/span> driving up egg prices, and a new potentially lethal strain <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cows-bird-flu-d11-symptoms\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">in dairy cows<\/a><\/span>, only a handful of human cases have been confirmed from bird flu in the U.S. Investigations have linked cases to direct contact with sick animals, not human-to-human transmission.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \"\/><!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/alexander-tin\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Alexander Tin<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Alexander Tin is a digital reporter for CBS News based in the Washington, D.C. bureau. 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