Add Flu Season as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Flu Season news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Add InterestAn estimated 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications last winter — the disease's highest death toll in at least four decades. Flu experts knew it was a very bad season, but at least one found the size of the estimate surprising. 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.

Source: ABC News September 26, 2018 19:30 UTC