As of Feb. 6, 2025, most states have "high" or "very high" levels of flu-like illness. This map from the CDC uses the proportion of outpatient visits to health care providers for influenza-like illness (ILI) to measure the level within a state.Centers for Disease Control and Pr...
As of Feb. 6, 2025, most states have "high" or "very high" levels of flu-like illness. This map from the CDC uses the proportion of outpatient visits to health care providers for influenza-like illness (ILI) to measure the level within a state.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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 ...
The CDC has declared the first “severe” case of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S., according to a press release published Wednesday. The good news? The person who contracted the virus appears to have gotten it from backyard poultry, meaning they didn’t acqui... CDC bird flu Why Do We Sle...
The CDC conducted a genetic analysis of an H5N1 bird flu sample from a person in Louisiana that shows the disease could be more transmittable to humans. The person became infected with the “D1.1 genotype virus,” which closely resembles the virus “detected in wild birds and poultry in the...
The Department of Health and Human Services told ABC News that, so far, more than 7 million updated COVID-19 shots have been administered. The CDC recommends getting the COVID-19 and flu vaccines by the end of October and encourages both to be given at...
About 700 women die of pregnancy-related problems every year in the U.S., and many of those deaths appear to be preventable.
The new head of health agencies, Robert F Kennedy Jr , has reportedly stopped a seasonal flu vaccine campaign. A scheduled meeting of the CDCs independent vaccines committee has also been postponed.A new study , published by the CDCs Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, offers some insight into ...
“But this system can take time, and sometimes by the time the results of the subtyping are in, the patient may already be discharged,” said Shah. Hospitals that have the equipment to test for the H5N1 bird flu subtypes are urged to do so in house, as close to the time of admission...
In ahealth alertissued Dec. 13, state officials said the case involves a resident of southwestern Louisiana. "The individual had exposure to sick and dead birds that are suspected to have been infected with H5N1,” the virus that causes bird flu. ...