Influenza Hits Post-Pandemic Peak
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Flu levels now highest since 2009 pandemic, CDC reports

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Levels of influenza nationwide are now at the highest they have been since the peak of the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
Nearly 8% of visits for respiratory illness to outpatient providers this week were people sick with influenza.
That is the worst on record in the CDC 's influenza surveillance network since late 2009 .
Most states are at "high" or "very high" levels of influenza activity.
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