Most of these deaths are among the elderly. In 2022-2023 the death rate due to influenza among those aged 65 years and older was around 26.6 per 100,000 population. In comparison, those aged 18 to 49 years had an influenza death rate of just .7 per 100,000 population. Read more ...
During the week ending Jan. 6, the CDC also received reports of 13 pediatric flu-associated deaths, bringing the current total to 40 for the 2023-2024 season. There were 183 pediatric deaths during the last flu season. To help prevent illness, hospitalization and death, the CDC recommends ...
Compared with most other viral respiratory infections, such as the common cold, influenza (flu) infection usually causes a more severe illness with a mortality rate (death rate) of about 0.1% of people infected with the virus. Cold symptoms (for example, sore throat, runny nose, cough (with...
Recently, BJU has seen more influenza cases compared to the same time last year. Beijing CDC has reported a significant increase of influenza patients during February 2023. Read on to learn more about the flu. Each year, when the flu season is onset,...
First child flu death of season reported in Louisiana The Louisiana Department of Health on Friday confirmed the state’s first pediatric flu death of the season. December 23, 2023 Flu and COVID infections are rising and could get worse over the holidays, CDC says U.S. health officials...
The WHO has also estimated that between 2 million and 3 million deaths are prevented due to vaccines each year. A study found that high levels of vaccine hesitancy could result in a mortality rate that is 7.6 times higher than average over a 2-year period in the absence of nonpharmaceutical...
can spread to other animals and humans. In 2024, the virus appeared in cows, and as of December 2024, there were 65 confirmed cases of bird flu in humans in the United States. Typically, bird flu causes mild respiratory symptoms, but it has caused more severe symptoms and even death. ...
Annenberg Public Policy Center's ASK (Annenberg Science Knowledge) survey of 1,657 U.S. adults conducted Jan. 10-16, 2023. Mandate questions were asked of a half-sample of 826 respondents. Credit: Annenberg Public Policy Center When the 49% of survey respondents who said they got the flu...
Among hospitalized adults, COVID-19 remains slightly more deadly than the flu, according to ananalysisrecently published in theJournal of the American Medical Association. The death rate among adults hospitalized in 2023-2024 with COVID-19 was 5.7% at 30 days, compared to 4.7% at 30 days for...
one hundred years ago this week, in January 1918. From Kansas the illness spread quickly: not only throughout the U.S. but across the world. Eventually (if misleadingly) it became known asSpanish flu. And while its effects on the body were awful, the mortality rate was truly terrifying....