Flu-related deaths in the United States last winter became the single highest toll of the last four decades, new numbers showed.
According to new data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, 80,000 people died during the past flu season due to the disease, as reported by Gizmodo.
During the 2017-2018 flu season, around 900,000 people in the U.S. were hospitalized, making it the highest hospitalization rate because of the illness in recent history. The number broke the previous record set in 2014-2015.
There were also 180 reported child deaths, the highest number of pediatric casualties caused by seasonal flu since 2004. Even though the 2009 swine flu epidemic killed more children, it is not considered a seasonal flu.
“Last year was just a horrible season. It was just a tremendous amount of disease,” said Daniel Jernigan, head of the CDC’s influenza division, on Thursday.
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