What’s making this year’s flu more severe? | The Current

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We speak with Dr. Jesse Papenburg at Montreal Children’s Hospital about the high number of kids coming into the ER and having to be hospitalized with influenza. And then we turn to Angela Rasmussen, virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Organization in Saskatchewan who explains why the H3N2 influenza strain this year is causing harsher illness, and what to expect in the years to come as the U.S. begins to taper back sharing its virus data with Canada and the rest of the world.

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