◎Patients should avoid contact with children as much as possible. If the child has the flu, it is necessary to isolate him/her from other children, separate children in the household in two rooms if possible, and wash your hands and face before and...
The majority of flu illness in Canada was caused by H3N2, with influenza B causing 40%. As of January 20, Canada recorded 110 flu-related deaths for the season and 2,643 flu-related hospitalizations, mostly in adults 65 or older. Mexico reported increasing flu activity during January, ...
Spanish flu pandemic is believed to have affected approximately 25–30 percent of the world's population and caused more than 50–60 million human deaths globally [3]. Influenza infections in humans occur either as epidemic (seasonal or interpandemic) influenza caused by influenza A and B ...
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919 was the deadliest pandemic in world history, infecting some 500 million people across the globe—roughly one-third of the population—and causing up to 50 million deaths, including some 675,000 deaths in the United States alone. The disease, caused by a ...
ATHENS, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- The number of fatalities from flu complications climbed to 91 during the current flu season which started in autumn, Greece's Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) said on Thursday. Seventeen deaths were recorded within the past week, according to ...
While the CDC does not have numbers yet on how effective this year's flu vaccine is, researchers in Canada – where similar strains of the virus have been spreading – estimate it isless than 20 percent effectiveagainst the H3N2 strain. ...
The World Health Organization says seasonal flu is an acute respiratory infection caused by influenza viruses which circulate in all parts of the world. Annual epidemics of influenza are estimated to result in 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness and 290,000 to 650,000 deaths worldwide. ...
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https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/flu-influenza/health-professionals.html From December 2017 to February 2018, across all types of healthcare facilities in Quebec, the number of Influenza cases was much higher than anticipated. While the number of cases were high all across...
833 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in mainland China including 4636 deaths. The basic reproduction number “R0” of SARS-CoV-2 has been assessed by studies to be around 2.2 or more (range 1.4–6.5), and family pneumonia outbreak groupings add to the proof of a steadily growing ...