"My dad can't walk." When I checked, the flu...It's the biggest trend in 8 years and cold wave is 'emergency'

Amid the predicted cold wave, it is a flu emergency everywhere these days.

It's the biggest epidemic in eight years, and the symptoms are unusual,

More details, let's watch it together on the screen.

According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 73.9 flu cases per 1,000 outpatients in the country in the last week of last year, a more than 10-fold jump from three weeks ago in early December.

This is the highest figure in eight years since 2016.

Nam Goong-in, a professor of emergency medicine at Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, shared the serious situation he faced in the emergency room on his SNS, saying, "It seems that the whole people are seeing that last period when they could not avoid COVID-19 infection."

"My father can't walk", "My mother can't eat", "My friend fainted", "I think the urinary tract infection has recurred".

All patients who complained of these symptoms were tested and found to be flu.

Usually, when you get the flu, you get a high fever, chills, muscle pain, and sore throat, but there are many cases outside the typical symptoms.

[Lee Jae-gap / Professor of Infectious Medicine at Hallym University Gangnam Sacred Heart Hospital: You should get it now. The influenza virus that is still popular right now is type A, H1N1 and H3N2, and the two are not popular together, but they are popular together now. So even if you get one, you can get another one next time, and since blood type B can also become popular after February, you have to get it right even if you get one now. If you don't get caught, you have to hurry and get it right away.

The KDCA recommended getting vaccinated before the Lunar New Year holiday because the infection could spread further as many people move and meet.

In particular, children aged 6 months to 13 years old, pregnant women, and senior citizens aged 65 or older who are vulnerable to infection can be inoculated free of charge, regardless of their address, at designated medical institutions nationwide.You can check the vaccination assistant website for designated agencies close to

, so please refer to it.