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Only 45% of people got a flu shot this season, though. The flu vaccine is between 63% and 78% effective at preventing hospitalizations among children and between 41% and 55% effective among adults ...

This flu season has been particularly bad for children, with many experiencing severe complications such as pneumonia, dehydration and organ failure.

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This flu season is the worst in the last 15 years, said Dr. Martin Topiel, Virtua Health's chief infection control officer. "That's really quite remarkable in itself," he said.

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How bad the season has been varies depending where you live, Siewny added. "Actually, compared to last year, we have had fewer hospitalizations," Siewny said of her region, in central North Carolina.

So far this flu season, nearly 3,800 people in Wisconsin have been hospitalized from the flu, compared to just over 2,100 during the same period last year, according to a DHS report released Friday.

Nationwide, flu rates are at the highest they've been since the H1N1 swine flu pandemic in 2009, with at least 29 million cases of the flu, 370,000 hospitalizations and 16,000 deaths this season ...