80,000 Americans Died From Influenza Over Last Year
THURSDAY, Sept. 27, 2018 -- Influenza was deadlier last season than it has been for at least four decades, killing 80,000 Americans. So said the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Tuesday in an interview with the Associated Press.
"That's huge," William Schaffer, M.D., a vaccine expert at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., told the AP. He said that a total of 80,000 deaths is more than double the number expected in a typical "bad" flu season. In recent years, the annual flu death toll has ranged from 12,000 to 56,000 deaths, the CDC said.
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