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why does it not persist in low humidity cold climates during summer months such as northern canada?

why is it seasonal everywhere despite low humidity cold climates being present in some areas always that would create "non seasonal" events

why do we see flu season at the equator where there is really no seasonal climate variations?
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NaturalNerd 1w ago 💬 1

These are some great questions. I did not know that the equator had a flu season

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Dan Ostermayer 1w ago

haha! it doesn't!! yet it still gets the flu randomly. so it begs the question what is causing it there if these qualities of "seasonal transmission" are absent all year long.

we attribute the flu to the seasonal events that make transmission more likely yet we see the flu like symptoms in places where there are not augmented transmission qualities.

perhaps as you suggest it is from something not related to seasonality and more to do with human deficiency