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US flu season most intense in at least 15 years

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76% Informative

CDC : 43 states reported high or very high flu activity last week .

CDC : At least 24 million flu illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations and 13,000 deaths this winter .

The flu has forced schools to shut down in some states.

Two strains of seasonal flu are causing most illnesses: type A H1N1 and H3N2.

VR Score

88

Informative language

94

Neutral language

62

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

41

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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not detected

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not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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