Early Flu?

We haven't even started school yet and I took my own daughter to the dr. today and she has strep throat. Kind of odd.

I did a quick internet search and nothing is popping up about early flu incidences for this season, but this is definitely a higher occurrence rate (in my population) than last year.

Remind me where you are?? Nothing here in the NTX yet but I seem to have a cold. I am drowning in my own mucus...

1 minute ago, ruby_jane said:

Remind me where you are?? Nothing here in the NTX yet but I seem to have a cold. I am drowning in my own mucus...

Arizona

Yikes!

That's very early! I'm in Arizona too, and I haven't seen a case yet. ADHS still doesn't even have their 2019-20 flu reports on the website....

https://www.azdhs.gov/preparedness/epidemiology-disease-control/flu/index.php#surveillance-home

I'm in south TX, and it's the third week of school. We've had one confirmed flu case reported already. Isn't that crazy?

Update: one of my suspected flus was pna - so 3 confirmed flu, 2 flu-like symptoms, one pna. Wild!

We are on week 3 of school - no flu, but 7 confirmed cases of strep throat. crazy. these kids are dropping like flies this week. ugh.

Apparently the Australians had an early flu season as well. Not sure what that means.

I usually hold off on getting my flu shot until October each year, but this is good to know! Looks like I'll be getting mine sooner this time.

Flu never really goes away, it just reduces when we are naturally outdoors more often and not in confined environments. Our more sedate lifestyles are catching up with us and in the near future we may need flu shots every six month. You just happened to see this isolated continuity of the virus.