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Clallam County health officer warns severe flu season, urges vaccination amid measles cases and avian-flu watch
Summary
Dr. Hasseberry reported higher-than-usual influenza hospitalizations including a child, described a national measles rise and ongoing avian-flu activity in animals, and said federal cuts have reduced pandemic-response coordination.
Dr. Hasseberry, the public health officer serving Clallam and Jefferson counties, told the Board of Health on March 8 that this flu season has produced more severe outcomes than typical and urged vaccination for everyone older than 6 months.
Hasseberry said the county saw a small recent spike in influenza hospitalizations and that “those are real people that got hospitalized,” adding the spike included one child and was not tied to any long-term care outbreak. She said most children hospitalized for influenza nationwide are unvaccinated and that vaccination remains the best protection: “When we see children hospitalized for influenza, near exclusively they're not vaccinated.”
The health office…
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