Alaska had more influenza cases reported in the past year than in any of the three prior years, with severity that was worse than in those recent years, according to a new report from state health officials.
There were an estimated 11,900 lab-confirmed cases of influenza – commonly known as the flu – in the 2024-2025 season, which ran from last fall to this summer, said Carrie Edmonson, a state nurse epidemiologist and coauthor of…