According to the most recent update from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 15 children in the United States have died thus far this flu season as influenza has reached epidemic levels.Mark Lowery, Content Editor...
Influenza is the primary culprit behind the rise in acute respiratory infection cases. However, overall figures remain lower than during the same period last year, and there is no severe shortage of medical resources.Exp...
The agency has detected a milder strain of the virus for this year and early tests show the vaccine will be more effective, Dr. Daniel Jernigan, a CDC flu expert, told the AP. Tags: influenza, death, CDC Read More Galleries America 2024 The Best Political Cartoons ...
“The [Chicago Department of Public Health] announced Sunday that there were two unrelated measles cases among children at a migrant shelter in a large warehouse in the city’s Pilsen neighborhood,” according to that report. “One child has recovered and is no longer infectious, the health dep...
This year’s respiratory virus season is set to be a repeat of last year’s, with COVID-19, RSV and influenza impacting the health care system at the same time, per the CDC
Many countries send samples of worrying influenza cases to the CDC's Atlanta laboratory for scrutiny of mutations that might pose a pandemic threat, like after deaths from bird flu or swine flu. Responding to viruses like polio and Marburg ...
RELATED | Family: 7-year-old Virginia boy dies after contracting flu, strep throat Number of influenza-associated pediatric deaths by week of death (CDC) According to the report, flu activity is now widespread in 48 states and Puerto Rico, down from 49 states during the previous t...
The advisory comes amid concerns that cases of H5N1 avian influenza will sicken more people in the United States. CDC officials confirmed earlier this week that a second San Francisco child contracted bird flu last week, and earlier this month, a 65-year-old Louisiana man became thefirst person...
Theeffectivenessof this year's influenza vaccine was lower in South America than last season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday, which might be a clue to how much protection theshotscould offer people in the U.S. this winter. ...
Bird flu has been spreading in poultry since 2022, and cases in dairy cows began to crop up in March. The virus wasdiscovered in a pigfor the first time earlier this year. Bird flu infections in people -- nearly all among farmworkers -- have now been confir...