Six weeks into the flu season, the H1N1 virus is still killing young adults and middle-aged Americans at epidemic levels in other areas of the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Pennsylvania, though, seems to have gotten through the worst of the viral storm, if not the snow storms.
Although the death toll isn’t nearly as bad as the 2009 influenza epidemic that swept across the United States, that same H1N1 virus has seen a resurgence this year, infecting more than 6,600 Americans since October and resulting in deaths beyond epidemic levels for the rest of the country since mid-January. Continue reading →