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...
From October 2023 through May 2024, population-based hospitalization rates among adults ages 75 and older were about 800-900 per 100,000 population -- more than three times as high as among adults ages 65 to 74, Fiona Havers, MD, MHS, of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory...
Flu Immunization Foreseen Massive; CDC Says 17,855 Cases Already
The CDC says that rates of COVID-19 and fluremain lownationwide, ahead of a wave that the agency's disease forecastersexpectcould reach peak hospitalizations worse than those in this pastsummer's COVID-19 wave.
Among the data they asked the CDC to gather was on whether healthy children and young adults were still at risk of severe disease from the virus. While rates of COVID-19 hospitalizations remain worst in seniors and in babies under 6 months old, the agencypresented datafinding that otherwise ...
The second change to the CDC’s Immunization Schedule for Adults for 2018 is the recommendation of an additional dose of measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine for people who are identified by public health authorities as being a part of a group or population at risk for acquiring mumps ...
director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, during a press briefing. The agency estimates that there have been 1.6 million illnesses, 13,000 hospitalizations, and 730 deaths from the flu so far this season. As of November 4, there have been two pediatric ...
CDC Confirms Human Cases of H5 Bird Flu Among Colorado Poultry Workers Colorado Reports Three Presumptive Positive H5 Cases in Poultry Workers CDC Reports Fourth Human Case of H5 Bird Flu Tied to Dairy Cow Outbreak Readout of Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Meeting Held June 26 – 28...
If deaths were classified more accurately, then the daily death toll would be closer to the toll the flu takes during a typical season, Doron says. If this is true, the odds of a person dying if they get a COVID infection — what's called the case fatality rate — would be about ...
Hospital stays for kids ages 5 to 11 with Covid were on average longer than children hospitalized with the seasonal flu, he said. Young kids with Covid were also more likely to be admitted to the ICU, when compared to those who had the flu, he added. ...