LOADING ERROR LOADINGHere’s even more reason to get a flu shot: This year’s flu season is expected to be a bad one, potentially even worse than last year’s record-breaking season. Last year was the worst flu season in 15 years for the United States, with high hospitalizations and infection levels. According to BBC reporting, experts in the U.K. predict the country will have a severe flu season, too, based on an early start to the flu season there, along with a mutation in the flu virus. To predict the severity (or not) of flu season in the U.S., experts glean influenza data from countries in the Southern Hemisphere, where the flu season occurs during our summer months (Australia, for example, had a record high number of flu cases this year), along with European countries, where flu season starts a little earlier. While it’s easy to panic over headlines about an upcoming severe flu season, Hopkins said to prepare instead of panic.
