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Flu Cases On The Rise In Miami: How Disinfection Services Keep Your Business Flu-Free
- Alexander Richardson
- Mar 6
- 4 min read
On February 14th CBS News Miami reported that the CDC (Centers For Disease Control And Prevention) has declared flu season a high severity in Miami, and has stated that it is classified as a high severity for all age groups for the first time since the 2017-2018 season. There has been elevated Flu activity all across the country, and there are reports of Flu deaths outpacing COVID-19 deaths. The outbreak has even caused school closures in multiple states because of how many students and staff became infected. This chart showcases flu activity all across the country from January 18th, 2025, to February 8th, 2025, and Florida has consistently been at a high activity level.
The best way to defend your business against the flu is to disinfect high-touch areas as much as possible, but in a large-scale building, there are many high-touch areas, making it difficult to disinfect all of them effectively. In this blog, we’re going to go over why the Flu is so contagious, why it’s so dangerous, how to keep your business flu-free, and the benefits of disinfection services.
What Is The Flu?
The Flu is a respiratory illness that is caused by influenza viruses. It’s spread through respiratory droplets that people produce when they sneeze, laugh, talk, or cough. These droplets can spread up to six feet away and can live on some surfaces for up to 24-48 hours. People with the flu are contagious around 1 day before they show symptoms and up to 5 days after symptoms show. Flu symptoms include:
Fatigue
Body Aches
Sore Throat
Headache
Runny/Stuffy Nose
Cough
The flu is such a large threat that many commercial disinfecting services have cleaning procedures that are specifically designed to neutralize the flu. Utilizing professional disinfecting services is enough to keep the flu away from your business, but it’s important to understand why the flu is so dangerous.
The Dangers Of The Flu
The flu is dangerous because it’s much more complex than a regular cold. The flu virus has four different types: A, B, C, and D. They can all be killed with low-level disinfection sanitizers.
Type A: Type A is the most common strain of the flu and is the cause of occasional seasonal outbreaks. It can mutate faster than type B and infect animals and humans. The natural host for type A is birds, which is how bird flu develops in a wild bird, which can then spread to humans.
Type B: Type B can only infect humans and is much less common during a flu season. It does not mutate as fast as type A, making it less common in outbreaks, but it can still cause severe symptoms.
Type C: Type C is not as threatening as types A and B. It only causes mild symptoms and isn’t known to cause seasonal outbreaks.
Type D: Type D is common among cows and pigs and isn’t much of a threat to humans.
While types D and C aren’t a major threat to humans, types A and B are a concern. Since A and B mutate, they can adapt into a new strain every year and can easily infect people who don’t get their annual flu shot. It makes a very resilient virus that can easily get out of control. That’s why professional disinfecting services and low-level disinfection wipes are the best way to combat the spread of the virus, since it is easily killed when on surfaces.
What Can You Do To Stop The Flu?
Whether you own a restaurant, school, hotel, or factory, there are very simple steps you can take to ensure your business is safe from the flu.
Sanitize High-Touch Areas Frequently: Fortunately, the flu can be killed with just low-level disinfection. Prioritize sanitizing doorknobs, handles, tables, countertops, desks, chairs, etc.
Encourage Staff To Get A Flu Shot: The best way to protect yourself from the flu is by getting a flu shot. Try your best to encourage your employees to get the flu shot to mitigate the spread of the flu in the workplace.
Using Adequate Disinfectants: Make sure the disinfectants you use are proven to kill the flu virus. Lysol wipes are a great low-level disinfection wipe to use, so be sure to invest in them.
How Hire Crews Can Protect Your Business
While you can encourage staff to get flu shots, there’s no way of knowing whether any customers have gotten the shot. Some customers might even have the flu. Here’s how Hire Crews can protect your business from a flu outbreak with our professional disinfecting services.
Hotel Cleaning: Hire Crews adheres to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the Global Biorisk Advisory Council (GBAC). These standards ensure all high-touch surface areas are sanitized thoroughly, reducing contamination risk and increasing guest satisfaction.
School Cleaning: Hire Crew’s disinfection and sanitizing services utilize EPA-approved disinfectants and green cleaning products that are eco-friendly certified by the EPA’s Safer Choice program.
Medical Office Cleaning: Hire Crews provides custom cleaning plans for medical offices, ranging from small offices to large hospitals. We comply with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and OSHA guidelines to improve patient outcomes and avoid infections. We even have cleaning plans designed to combat seasonal flu outbreaks.
Hire Crews offers cleaning services for many different business spaces as well. These spaces include Offices, Industrial Spaces, and Retail Stores.
Hire Crew’s advanced cleaning technology to ensure all the spaces we clean are properly disinfected and free of harmful germs and bacteria. We follow the strict guidelines of the CDC, which reduces the risk of infections from all diseases and viruses. We even have specific disinfection plans that we use to optimize how we disinfect your business. These plans include -
Electrostatic Disinfection Services
Advanced Disinfection Services for Offices
COVID-19 Disinfection Services
Emergency Disinfection Services
School Disinfection Services
The best way to fight the flu is with preventative measures, not reactive.
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