With winter weather keeping many indoors, health officials across Kentucky are reporting a surge in respiratory illnesses and gastrointestinal infections that are keeping clinics busy and patients miserable for weeks.
The Woodford County Health Department is seeing a shift in flu patterns, with about 40% of cases now being flu B, according to Cassie Prather, director of the health department.
“We’re seeing a little bit of everything right now. We’re seeing flu transition from being primarily flu A to being more flu B,” Prather said…