North Carolina flu death toll at 185, including two last week

Two more people in North Carolina died from flu-related symptoms last week, raising the death toll to 185 with one week left in the reporting season, health officials said. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services said in its weekly statistics that both flu victims were ages 65 and older. Of the 185 deaths this season, 105 were 65 or older, according to the agency. Last season, 208 people died of flu-related symptoms in North Carolina.