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The US Could Be Heading For One Of Its Worst Flu Seasons In Years
BI ^ | 9-25-2015 | Bob Bryan

Posted on 09/25/2015 3:24:27 PM PDT by blam

Bob Bryan
September 25,2015

As summer turns to fall, the medical community is ramping up for their annual fight against the flu.

One Wall Street firm thinks this flu season could be a bad one.

William Quirk and Alexander Nowak at Piper Jaffray use the number of flu cases from Australia and New Zealand to forecast the US season, and they say the numbers from the southern hemisphere point to a massive increase in sicknesses this year.

'The Southern hemisphere just went through one of the worst flu seasons on record (despite the vaccine targeting the correct strains)," wrote Quirk and Nowak in a note to clients. "Using the New Zealand influenza season (reinforced with Australia) as our basis (influenza-like illness cases +45% yoy), our analysis suggests a 31.9% rise in influenza-like illnesses (ILI) season/season for the United States."

This would mean that their average prediction for US cases is 943,356, which is the worst since the H1N1 pandemic in 2009. Last year there were 715,031 reported ILIs, and 2009 was the only year in a decade to crack 750,000.

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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fearporn; flu; money; sickness; vacine
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1 posted on 09/25/2015 3:24:27 PM PDT by blam
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To: Smokin' Joe

Ping.


2 posted on 09/25/2015 3:24:55 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: blam

or not.


3 posted on 09/25/2015 3:24:56 PM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: blam

Got my flu shot last week ... hope it works. I stopped getting them for years, because every time I did get one, sure ‘nuff, got the flu. The past few years now I’ve gotten the shot and no flu.


4 posted on 09/25/2015 3:26:21 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: blam

I use Silver Sol and have been flu-free for years.


5 posted on 09/25/2015 3:26:37 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: blam

Always get my flu shot in September/birth month


6 posted on 09/25/2015 3:26:45 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: blam

It must be the end of September again.

Same headline every year.

People somehow surviving anyway, film at eleven...


7 posted on 09/25/2015 3:27:19 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: blam

Variants of this story are run EVERY YEAR before flu season. I usually don’t totally believe them but our family still gets flu shots every year.


8 posted on 09/25/2015 3:28:37 PM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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To: blam

They say this every year. Last year was one of the worst years for the VACCINE.


9 posted on 09/25/2015 3:29:45 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ("A real conservative will bear the scars...will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz)
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To: blam

The Syrian flu?


10 posted on 09/25/2015 3:31:25 PM PDT by donna (Pray for Revival.)
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To: blam

Don’t they pretty much dust off this headline every year?


11 posted on 09/25/2015 3:31:30 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: blam

Just like the “This Year’s Hurricane Season Could Be the Worst in Years” we see every year.


12 posted on 09/25/2015 3:32:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: blam

These type of articles are a certainty every year on FR. Groundhog Day.


13 posted on 09/25/2015 3:32:38 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: blam

My husband has gotten a flu shot every year but one for the past 10 years or so.

The one year he didn’t get the shot, he was very, very sick with the flu. That was about 7 years ago. Fortunately, I didn’t catch it from him.


14 posted on 09/25/2015 3:32:52 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: blam

Saw a funny sign on the cash register at Walgreen’s the other day which said “Flu Goal 1760”.

Perhaps someone should have added the word shot or vaccine in there somewhere.


15 posted on 09/25/2015 3:34:33 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: blam

I stopped getting the flu when I stopped eating food other people cooked


16 posted on 09/25/2015 3:39:57 PM PDT by Lera (Proverbs 29:2)
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To: EDINVA
I've never had a shot in my life ...

Something about a free injection from the government just kind'a red flags the whole thing

I've had the flu maybe 4 or 5 times in all my adult years

When I get it, boy do I get it .... but it's a legitimate time off from work with mama and chicken soup

17 posted on 09/25/2015 3:42:28 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: blam

Maybe the Muzzies will contract swine flu.


18 posted on 09/25/2015 3:43:30 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Obama's Iran nuclear deal - The Devil is in the details.)
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To: blam
businessinsider.com ...     Official disseminator of establishment blather.


19 posted on 09/25/2015 3:46:43 PM PDT by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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To: blam

Well...if Bob Bryan says so it must be true.


20 posted on 09/25/2015 3:54:11 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (Let me know if you want on The Baseball Ping List)
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