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40 OBITUARIES 56 SCIENCE/HEALTH Churches Try to Prevent Flu The Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, Vt., is encouraging priests to refrain from using the communion chalice and urging parishioners to avoid the usual handshake, hug or kiss when they make the sign of peace during Mass until the end of flu season, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said.

The virus' relatively sudden appearance in April, usually considered the end of flu season in the northern hemisphere, is eerily reminiscent of 2009's H1N1 "swine flu" pandemic, which gained prominence at the same time of year, and which eventually infected sixty million people and killed more than twelve thousand.

Throughout the study period, one of the authors (R. B). monitored all laboratory tests done within Kaiser Permanente and identified the beginning and end of each flu season, based on the number of influenza tests and whether more than 10percentt were positive.

"It was unusual because it was the end of the flu season," he said.

This outbreak is unusual, Dr. Harper said, because it began near the end of the flu season.

Even though it is now the middle, or possibly near the end, of the flu season, the health department is still recommending that people get the vaccine.

There was no reason to suspect a new virus, he says, until a spike in cases among the young and healthy appeared towards the end of the flu season in early April.

Maybe this will end in the United States with the end of the flu season.

Normally, towards the end of the flu season, the number of specimens we process each week falls.

"But there can be [mutation] so that the circulating type might not be as well matched at the end of the flu season as it was at the beginning".

Our friends down under had 215,280 cases by mid-October (toward the end of their flu season), which far outweighs the 59,022 cases they saw during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.