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The 2024–25 seasonal influenza vaccine doesn’t prevent H5N1 bird flu but could play a pivotal role in preventing a pandemic, the CDC says.
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...
Influenza is a seasonal respiratoryviral infectionthat results in some 250 000–500 000 deaths globally each year.1The illness is characterized by a sudden onset of high temperature and debilitating systemic symptoms. In healthy individuals, infection is typically self-limited; however, complication...
With the end of the national public health emergency for COVID-19 in May 2023, what can be expected as we look ahead to the 2023-2024 influenza season and beyond?2 guerrieroale - stock.adobe.com The number of influenza cases was historically low during the 2020-2021 season. The CDC ...
Google Flu Trends collects the 50 million most common search queries in Google as they relate to flu symptoms, remedies, and complications and compares them with the CDC’s reported national influenza-like illness (ILI) rates [16]. The benefits of using the Internet are multiple as these ...
influenza viruses to others may occur one day before symptoms develop and up to 5 to 7 days after becoming sick, the disease can be easily transmitted to others.11Estimates from the CDC report that during the ...
The impact of influenza on the health related quality of life in China: an EQ-5D survey. BMC Infect Dis. 2017;17(1):686. doi:10.1186/s12879-017-2801-2 8. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention NCfIaRDN. Clinical signs and symptoms of influenza. Available from: https://www.cdc. ...
Common symptoms include acute fever, muscles pain, headache, cough and chills [3]. Special risk groups, such as very young children, the elderly and those suffer- ing from chronic lung or heart diseases are at risk for seri- ous influenza complications, e.g. bacterial pneumonia [4,5]. ...