Every fall and winter, viral respiratory illnesses like the common cold and seasonal flu keep kids out of school and social activities. But this year, more children than usual are ending up at emergency departments and hospitals.
The bird flu H5N1 has continued to kill wild birds and poultry this summer.
Mass bird flu infections pose a significant risk to vulnerable species and increase the opportunity for the virus to spill over into people.
The positivity rate for influenza rose higher this week to 8.3%, reaching one of the highest positivity rates of the season with cases of influenza A leading the way.
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Influenza activity is increasing in the northeast and northwest regions with the highest activity in the central and south-central regions of the country.
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Vaccines could be a viable option to protect poultry against deadly bird flu, as the country faces one of the worst outbreaks of bird flu in the last decade.
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A new research paper published in Lancet found that having flu and Covid-19 at the same time more than doubles the risk of a patient dying.
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Data from the most recently reported week shows a 7.7% flu positivity rate for samples tested in laboratories throughout the country, one of the highest flu-positivity rates of the season.
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Government health officials are on alert due to a lethal type of avian influenza that’s devastated poultry farms in recent weeks.
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Flu activity is seeing an upswing in many parts of the country with the largest increases reported in the central and south-central parts of the country, but SARS-CoV-2 cases are still obscuring the data, according to the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s FluView report.
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A bird flu outbreak in Iowa was detected in a commercial flock of laying hens, the third outbreak the state has experienced in less than a month.
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The CDC reports that 5.9% of people with lab-confirmed influenza this season had concurrent COVID-flu infections.
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This season’s influenza vaccine is not a great match for the viruses in circulation, data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.
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So far this season, there have been eight pediatric flu-related deaths reported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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So far, this flu season in the United States there has been 43,153 documented influenza cases, according to a recent report from the CDC.
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