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Q: Flue epidemic in USA ?
I've been hearing through Chinese sources about a huge death toll in the USA from the flue.
However not a thing from the Australian media.
So is it true and we are not supposed to know?
6 years 11 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
There is a higher than normal number of deaths, or there have been some publicized deaths.
Epidemic, I don't think so because this could be publicized to increase flu vaccine sales.
As far as China reporting, China just likes to report negative stories about the US while banning news about what's going on in China.
ambivalentmace:
yes, like electricity usage in China was only up 1.4 percent in 2017 from the previous year, a good indication of the real GDP number.
I've never been to Ozz, so I don't know .... 
DDG shows this on Flu epidemic in USA:
http://ux.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/23/cdc-flu-kills-13-...
https://weather.com/health/news/2018-01-12-flu-cases-widespread-states-e...
http://www.businessinsider.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-flu-epi...
I hope the news in Japan is true that it made a breakthrough with a medicine that can cure the flu in one day.
But there are many strains of the flu.
It’s not just an epidemic, it’s an epidemic with a comparatively high fatality rate.
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster.
https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/
Molly Billings, June, 1997 modified RDS February, 2005
I don't know at what point something becomes an epidemic rather than an outbreak or whatever you'd call it before it gets that serious, but is it actually an epidemic?
icnif77:
By the number of people who are 
in-flu-ated with virus.
So, we got 'in'&'flu'& 'enza', i.e 'influenza'. I'd say origin of word might be 'inflation'. 
There is a higher than normal number of deaths, or there have been some publicized deaths.
Epidemic, I don't think so because this could be publicized to increase flu vaccine sales.
As far as China reporting, China just likes to report negative stories about the US while banning news about what's going on in China.
ambivalentmace:
yes, like electricity usage in China was only up 1.4 percent in 2017 from the previous year, a good indication of the real GDP number.
GOOG:
Flu epidemic in USA is spreading by virus with name 'Ozz virus':
Flu outbreak: 100 people a week are dying in US as virus continues to spread
At least 759 people died in US between 7 October and 23 December
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/flu-outbreak-aussie-flu...
It has been in the news since early Jan. It's global.
I was hit with it the week before CNY. Put me on my back for the full 2 weeks. Still not over it.
Its a persistant bugger.
