How to Protect Yourself From Influenza B Right Now

This year’s very tough flu season may finally be peaking, but it’s not time to let your guard down yet, experts say.

Levels of H3N2—the strain of influenza A that has predominated for most of this flu season and is more likely to cause severe illness than other strains—do appear be falling, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But overall levels of the flu are still quite high across the U.S., says Lynnette Brammer, M.P.H., an epidemiologist with the CDC’s influenza division.

And the percentage of cases caused by influenza B—A and B are the two main flu types—is now on the rise.

“It looks like we’re going into a wave of influenza B right now, which is pretty typical for this time of year,” Brammer says.

Here, what you need to know about influenza B and how to stay sickness-free for the remainder of this nasty flu season.


Source : Yahoo