The HSE has acknowledged that the Swine illness is the primary illness that is now affecting the nation, reports The Mirror.
In the last week or so, more than 2,000 people have been taken to the hospital, and the great majority of them are afflicted.
Hospital workers across have been attributing the turmoil and congestion to an epidemic akin to the swine flu.
Yesterday in a statement the HSE said: “Every season will have a mixture of influenza virus circulation, including AH1NI, AH3N2 and influenza B. In any one season, one of these will typically dominate. In this season to date it is AH1NI as happened in the seasons 2015/2016 and 2018/2019,” reports The Mirror.
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“The AH1NI virus now circulating emerged from the pandemic virus of 2009 and has been present in each flu season since then. It is by now a human-adapted virus circulating within populations by human to human spread. It is no longer appropriate to give it the term ‘swine flu’, a term which should be confined to viruses circulating within swine populations,” reports The Mirror.
It has been advised that people avoid hospitals unless they are really sick and their lives are in danger.
Many hospitals around the nation have also implemented visitor limits, reports The Mirror.
Anyone who is medically susceptible has been advised by the HSE to receive a Covid vaccination booster or the flu shot this week.
The Regional Clinical Director of the HSE Dublin, Dr Vida Hamilton said: “The Flu Vaccine is the best way to protect yourself and your loved ones from the flu this Winter. Being vaccinated reduces risk and helps to avoid serious illness, hospitalisations and even death.
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