logo
welcome
CBS News

CBS News

Flu emergency room visits now "very high" nationwide, CDC says

CBS News
Summary
Nutrition label

88% Informative

This season 's wave of flu cases is more than it has in the past two years .

In Oregon , 8.4% of emergency room visits involved flu at the end of December were "very high" in December .

Some of the highest levels of influenza are now in Western states, several of which have already topped the peaks of last winter's flu season .