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Western states suffer flu first

San Jose Mercury News

Wednesday 28 December 2005, 12:20 pm
Keywords: News Articles , Health Topics

By Barbara Feder Ostrov, Mercury News

California today is expected to join Utah as the two U.S. states with "widespread" influenza cases reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, state health officials said Tuesday.

Flu season typically hits the Eastern part of the country first before heading westward in January and February. This year, that pattern appears to be reversed, and while "it is indeed unusual, we don't know why," said California Department of Health Services spokeswoman Tacey Derenzy. "That's why we say the flu is unpredictable."

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