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ATLANTA — This flu season is the worst in four years, partly because the vaccine didn’t work well against the current viruses, health officials said Thursday.
This season’s vaccine was the worst match since 1997- 98, when the vaccine didn’t work at all, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
The CDC looks at adult deaths from flu or pneumonia in 122 cities. This year, those deaths peaked at 9 percent of all reported deaths in early March and remained above an epidemic threshold for 13 consecutive weeks. In 2003-04, they peaked at more than 10 percent of all deaths, and surpassed the epidemic threshold for nine weeks.
