47 States Reporting Widespread Flu Cases

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention forty-seven states are currently battling the flu.

California, Hawaii, and Mississippi are the three states that aren't reporting widespread cases.

Across the country, twenty children have died from the illness, so far in 2013.

Some are worried that the flu vaccine has stopped working, but the CDC says that it is still sixty-two percent effective.

CDC stats also say that forty-six percent of those, who have fallen ill, were above the age of sixty-five, when illness becomes more likely.