Flu cases DOUBLE in a week to 2 MILLION as outbreak takes hold across UK
FLU infections across the UK have doubled in just one week — with two million new cases.
By Sophie Jones
DailyStar.co.uk
11th January 2019
Cases shot up by 85% in England while there was a 55% jump in Wales.
The outbreak is now on the second level of a five-point scale.
An epidemic is reached when levels reach “very high” which is a five.
In the past three months, 41 people have died from influenza.
The UK had on average 60 flu diagnoses per 100,000 people last week, based on Public Health England figures released yesterday.
It reported: “The impact of flu on healthcare services is at Moderate intensity levels for hospitalisations.
”The most prevalent strain was H1N1, known as swine flu.
The flu is characterised by having a very swift onset of symptoms and a high fever.
It can also cause vomiting and diarrhoea, exhaustion and aching muscles.
A cold, on the other hand, rarely causes a fever and often gets worse more slowly.
Dangerous strains of flu have killed even healthy people in the past.
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 infected around 500 million people and is estimated to have killed up to 100 million of them — 5% of the world’s population.
There are fears a similar pandemic could be transmitted from the population from pigs.
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