The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services is reporting flu is in the widespread category across the state.

Julie Rother is Director of the Northeast Nebraska Public Health Department in Wayne, and says the flu season is peaking…..

State reports show three hundred eighty people hospitalized with flu in the last two weeks, with fifteen deaths so far this season.
Rother says the elderly seem to be most at risk…..

Rother says they are also seeing outbreaks of norovirus type illness, which causes vomiting and diarrhea. She says people need to avoid passing on those germs…….

The state has reported twenty-seven clustered outbreaks of flu so far this season.