Hill December 19, 2025
(NewsNation) — Cities across the nation are being hit with a new variant of influenza called subclade K, which has been dubbed a “super flu,” and certain states and cities, like New York City, are seeing the worst of it.
As the nation’s largest city preps for the holiday tourist rush, local health officials reported nearly 14,000 flu cases in the first week of December.
That’s a roughly 460 percent increase in infections from the same time last year, when the city recorded about 2,500 cases.
“We see the sudden spike in New York because of their more dense population. They’re a center for international as well as domestic travel,” Dr. Ulysses Wu, chief epidemiologist at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut,...
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