NEW YORK — An estimated 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications last winter — the disease’s highest death toll in at least four decades. Last fall and winter, the U.S. went through one of the most severe flu seasons in recent memory. Flu is so common that not all flu cases are reported, and flu is not always listed on death certificates. It eclipses the estimates for every flu season going back to the winter of 1976-1977. It’s not easy to compare flu seasons through history, partly because the nation’s population is changing.

Source: National Post September 26, 2018 19:30 UTC