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JACKSON & JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. — The most recent information from the Oregon Well being Authority displays that influenza exams in Jackson and Josephine counties had the absolute best % positivity within the state from Feb. 2 to Feb. 8.The FluBites weekly surveillance document from the OHA displays that Area 5, which is made up of Jackson and Josephine counties, had the absolute best % positivity at 31.4 % the week of Feb. 2 to Feb. 8. The total % positivity within the state is 24 %, up 0.4 % from the former week.Tanya Phillips, the well being and promotions preparedness supervisor at Jackson County Public Well being, stated this positivity price is prime throughout Oregon as an entire. Influenza A, which has lines like H1N1 and H3N2, make up many of the instances within the state this 12 months.”The ones two [strains] were lovely neck and neck,” Phillips advised NewsWatch 12.Flu signs to seem out for come with a fever, coughing with congestion and frame aches. Jackson County Public Well being is encouraging the group to get their signs looked at via a clinical supplier first, earlier than going to the emergency room. Phillips stated if a affected person has a troublesome time respiring, shortness of breath, chest or stomach ache, blue discoloration of the lips or a fever of 104 levels or upper, it is time for emergency care.”The general public are going to enjoy gentle sickness, however I will be able to say even [with] that gentle sickness, other people do not really feel just right,” Phillips advised NewsWatch 12. “Individuals are getting access to the emergency division as a result of they in point of fact do not really feel that fab.”Tactics to scale back your chance of catching the influenza virus come with washing your fingers, dressed in a masks when out in public and heading off shut touch with in poor health other people. A flu vaccine too can give protection to you from the virus via fighting you from getting it or decreasing your chance of having significantly sick.”What [the vaccine] does is assist reduce the chance that they are going to have to hunt clinical consideration, be hospitalized,” Phillips stated.Somebody having a look to get a flu shot can touch their clinical supplier, some pharmacies or the Jackson County Public Well being division.
Liv Collom is the Virtual Content material Supervisor at NewsWatch 12. You’ll be able to achieve Liv at lcollom@kdrv.com.
