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80,000 people died of flu last winter in US
Highest death toll in four decades
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In this Feb. 26, 2015 photo taken through the eyepiece of a microscope, human cells infected with the flu virus glow green under light from a fluorescence microscope at a laboratory in Seattle. The U.S. government estimates that 80,000 Americans died of flu and flu complications in the winter of 2017-2018 - the highest flu-related death toll in at least four decades. - photo by Associated Press
NEW YORK — An estimated 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications last winter — the disease's highest death toll in at least four decades.
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