The 2024-25 flu season was classified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a"high" severity seasonoverall and for all age groups, making it the first high severity season since 2017-2018. During the week ending Feb....
CDC: Milder Than Normal Flu Season Ending
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 ...
Suffolk County hospitals reported 337 residents with influenza in the week ending Feb. 1, according to New York State Department of Health data. Dr. Sharon Nachman Just last year, for the 2023-2024 flu season, Suffolk County hospitalizations peaked on Dec. 30 at 52. Even in the year before...
, March 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanofi announced today the immediate adoption of influenza strains selected by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to advance the manufacturing and delivery of its vaccine portfolio for the 2025-26 flu season in the US. ...
This week marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon, effectively ending the Vietnam War. In those waning days, emergency evacuations of U.S. civilians turned to chaos. Elizabeth Cook has the story of a group of flight attendants who flew right into the turbulence unfolding on the ground. ...
After a late start, this flu season is in full force. As of Feb. 7, flu activity remains high and continues to increase across the country, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease ControlFluView surveillance reportfor the week ending on Feb. 1, the most recent data available. ...
The influenza season is getting off to a slow start in Maine with hundreds of infections but no confirmed deaths, officials say.
rebounded in 2021-22, spawning concerns of a COVID-19 and flu "twindemic." TheCenters for Disease Control and Prevention reportsthat 1,804 people were hospitalized with influenza for the week ending Jan. 8. That's almost as many as who wereinfectedin the entire 2020-2021 flu ...
The Food and Drug Administration unexpectedly canceled an annual meeting of its advisers to update next season's influenza vaccines, an adviser on the panel and multiple officials tell CBS News, upending the usual process to start manufacturing next winter'sflu shots. ...