1-29-14 flu season peaks locally

The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer says the flu season has peaked locally…but its still not too late to get a flu shot.  Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says the predominant flu strain this season, H1N1, hit people hard with more than a dozen hospitalizations in Fond du lac.  "To date we've had about 14 hospitalizations,"  Mueller told WFDL news.  Mueller says 13 of the 14 people hospitalized had not received a flu vaccine.