Tags: Pandemic Flu Good New CDC Citizen Preparedness Video May 5th, 2008· No Comments I recently viewed a new emergency preparedness video produced by the Centers of Disease Control (CDC) for the public called “A New Era of Preparedness”. I think it is one of the better productions on ...
Levels of influenza nationwide are now at the highest they have been since the peak of the 2009 swine flu pandemic, according tofigurespublished Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, amid this winter'ssecond waveof the virus. Close to 8% of visits for respirator...
Flu Is Having Minimal Impact in County ; CDC Officials Say Vaccine Played Crucial RoleStauffer, Heather
flu and RSV. Cohen blamed the emergence of the highly mutated variantBA.2.86last summer and fall, and the fast-spreading descendant it spawned,JN.1, for delaying the rollout of the new guidance.
ATLANTA - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said flu cases remain "elevated" throughout the country, according to its latest weekly report. The agency said cases ticked up 16.2% compared to last week. Eight children have died this past week, and 65 children have died so...
The news comes amid one of the worst seasonal flu outbreaks in 15 years C raising the potential for the emergence of a more dangerous virus that combines bird flu and seasonal flu in a process called reassortment.I am very worried about H5N1 in patients that are being treated in hospitals ...
Some say it's now less risky than flu September 16, 2022 5:08 AM ET By Rob Stein Debating the way deaths are counted: The debate over COVID's mortality rate hinges on what counts as a COVID-19 death. Gandhi and other researchers argue that the daily death toll attributed to COVID ...
Five more countries on Friday reported their first cases of the coronavirus, with the deadly flu-like illness now reported in every continent except Antarctica. The five are Azerbaijan, Belarus, Lithuania, New Zealand and Nigeria, which became the first known case of the coronavirus in sub-Sahara...
Here's a breakdown of the numbers by county from the Maine CDC. Maine CDC And here's another handy graphic that was put together by the University of Maine Presque Isle GIS Lab that shows just about every number and stat you might be interested in, presented in a easy to understand form...
In 2009, when a new type of flu virus known at the time as swine flu spread around the world, the CDC held almost daily briefings. Its experts released information on a regular basis to describe the unfolding scientific understanding of the virus, and the race for a vaccine. ...