GLENDALE, CA - DECEMBER 27: Patient charts stack up as they arrive, many with complaints of flu-like symptoms, at the emergency section of the Verdugo Hills Medical Clinic on December 27, 2005 in Glendale, California. The annual arrival of the flu season has reportedly intensified over the holidays with spikes in influenza cases in California, Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, and Utah. Los Angeles and San Diego, California have been hit especially hard in the past two weeks. Nearly all the viruses so far come from a strain of influenza labeled A/California/07/2004, a flu virus first isolated in northern California last flu season, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
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