There’s a strong chance this flu season has peaked, but health officials are watching a recent wave of illnesses from a nastier flu strain.
Flu was reported to be widespread in 48 states last week, down from 49 the week before, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday in its latest report on this winter’s flu season. The federal agency’s flu forecasters think there’s a 90 percent chance the flu season has peaked.
But experts also are monitoring an increase in illnesses from a kind of flu virus that tends to cause more hospitalizations and deaths, especially in the elderly.
