{"id":10908,"date":"2025-11-26T18:27:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10908"},"modified":"2025-11-26T18:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:27:24","slug":"is-the-u-s-in-store-for-another-brutal-flu-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/11\/26\/is-the-u-s-in-store-for-another-brutal-flu-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the U.S. in Store for Another Brutal Flu Season?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scientific American<\/a> U.S. flu rates remain low, but experts are keeping an eye on a new strain that\u2019s been linked to unexpectedly early and severe seasons in several other countries. Influenza<\/a> is picking up in the U.S., and public health experts are bracing for signs of another brutal season with the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year\u00a0one of the worst waves of flu<\/a>\u00a0in recent decades took the U.S. by surprise. Japan and the U.K. are currently grappling with an unexpectedly early uptick in severe flu cases. A mutated strain known to cause severe disease may be behind some of the unusual activity. These warning signals, combined with interruptions in U.S. surveillance data and declining vaccination rates, have scientists worried. \u201cInfluenza is no joke,\u201d says Shaun Truelove, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University. \u201cRight now it\u2019s time for everybody to get vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n