After a brief reprieve over the snowy holidays, the flu season has picked up steam in Chattanooga.
“Sometimes flu hits in October and is gone by Christmas. Other times it’s more like this year and it doesn’t get started until late in the year,” said Dr. Janara Huff, pediatric infectious disease specialist at T.C. Thompson Children’s Hospital at Erlanger.
T.C. Thompson has witnessed a surge in sick children in the past few weeks, Huff said.
“It seems like it’s been worse for the past month than it was earlier in the year,” she said. “It’s just your typical fever, sore throat, coughs, body aches.”
The flu sidelined four members of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga basketball team earlier this month, forcing the postponement of a game. All of them had received the flu vaccine.