Flu season: It’s officially scary. Yesterday, Boston declared a public health emergency after the virus killed more than a dozen people, according to CNN.
And Boston isn’t the only place affected by the virus. Twenty-nine states and New York City are reporting high levels of influenza-like-illness (ILI) and 41 states are reporting widespread geographic flu activity, according to the latest FluView update (which contains data from the last week of December) from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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