Flu season is bad! How to avoid getting sick
Fulton Health Services offers six locations to get flu vaccinations.
The flu has hit early and hard this season in Georgia. Nationwide, 41 out of 50 states are reporting widespread flu. Flu season doesn't typically begin until February. According to Google Flu Trends, the current flu season in the Atlanta-area is "intense." Anecdotally, one particular strain of flu going around metro-Atlanta seems to be rougher than usual: it lasts 5-8 days, and has symptoms that include a high fever (between 101 and 105 in both adults and children), aches and pain in the legs and hips, a cough, sore throat and fatigue, followed by a few days of what seems like a cold, with swollen lymph nodes. “While we can’t say for certain how severe this season will be, we can say that a lot of people are getting sick with influenza …
Hunt Archbold
6:25 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
Eric, you are correct. Thanks for pointing that out and we've made the edit. more ›