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Wang Dayan, director of the National Influenza Center of the CDC's Institute of Viral Diseases, said that recent data from the multi-channel surveillance system show that COVID-19 is still present at a low level after the New Year holiday. It's estimated that alternating or co-epidemic tren...
Seasonal influenza viruses typically cause annual epidemics worldwide, infecting up to 35% of the human population1,2. However, the incidence of seasonal influenza was unusually low during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, likely due to non-pharmaceutical interv...
1.CDC recommends a yearly seasonal flu vaccine as the first and most important step in protecting against seasonal influenza.2.If you get seasonal or novel H1N1 flu anti-viral drugs can treat the flu.3.For treatment anti-viral drugs work best if started within the first 2 days of symptoms...
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June 13, 2024 – The CDC has detected two human cases of influenza that are resistant to the most commonly used antiviral flu drug, known by the brand name Tamiflu. Laboratory tests showed that two U.S. samples of influenza virus carried two major mutations that came from the most common ...
. Additionally, while hos- pitalization and mortality remain the accepted measures of influenza severity, there is no composite quantitative metric (used by the CDC or others) that synthesizes the varying acute effects imposed by the disease. In this work, we develop novel severity assessment met...
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday a $5 million initiative to offer seasonal flu vaccines to livestock workers in order to reduce the public health concern that a new version of the influenza virus could emerge among farm