Influenza

U.S. health officials predict the approaching cooler months will be similar to those in 2022 concerning viruses affecting the nation.

Schools in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong suspended classes on Thursday due to an influenza outbreak, an uncomfortable reminder of the punishing lockdowns that were used across the country during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

Target is restricting purchases of specific children’s medicines as the nation endures what has been dubbed the “tripledemic.”

Chinese officials on Wednesday admitted some “zero-Covid” lockdown policies have been “overly strict,” a very mild way of describing a policy that locked millions of people in their homes and seriously disrupted the national economy.

China’s coronavirus lockdowns spread across much of the nation this week, hitting large cities and manufacturing hubs in what the state-run Global Times conceded was a “grim epidemic situation.”

One of Germany’s ruling coalition parties has said that forced masking should be brought back this winter to help fight the flu.

China’s state-run Global Times on Monday reported an unseasonable spike in influenza cases across southern China blamed by government doctors on “weak immunity” due to “low exposure to respiratory pathogens affected by prevention and control measures against COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus].”

The U.S. influenza season has arrived with hospitalizations rising and two child deaths reported, sparking the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to call for a mass vaccine campaign against the traditional winter malady.

When the NIH ordered a pause on funding of “gain-of-function” research, were China’s labs — particularly the Wuhan Institute of Virology — covered as well?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in its weekly U.S. influenza surveillance report, identified the current flu season as “unusually low,” reporting the lowest influenza-related hospitalizations since the agency began collecting the data.

Thousands in South Korea were injected with compromised flu vaccines in recent weeks, Korea’s Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) admitted on Sunday.

Wednesday, during an ABC News Instagram live talk, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said masks could also help stop the spread of the flu.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s health system is woefully unprepared to deal with the effects of an epidemic, a report written before the coronavirus outbreak and released Monday by the state comptroller said.

The CDC’s weekly flu report: 23,000 people dead in the U.S., highest hospitalization rates for younger patients since 2009 H1N1 pandemic.

Charles Chiu, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, may play a vital role in stopping coronavirus.

The CDC has released its Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report, revealing 122,000 deaths, including 144 children, this flu season.

The experts are telling us an average of 3,060 America will die every day through the end of this year, and they are not saying this is a worst case scenario.

The CDD reports 20,000 people have died from influenza this season, including 136 influenza-associated deaths in children.

The Centers for Disease Control said 18,000 people have died from influenza and related pneumonia in the United States this season.

The flu season is far from over, yet a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states this season’s vaccine for the flu strain primarily affecting children is only a 58 percent match.

The thousands of migrants amassed at the U.S. southern border with Mexico include many who are sick with highly contagious diseases.

Thirteen children have died from the influenza virus this flu season, according to the latest statistics released from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

As “flu season” draws to a close, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn that another may be just beginning.

The death toll for children who have died from various strains of the flu this season has reached 97, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — with 13 deaths happening in the last reporting week ending January 17.

California reported 36 flu deaths for the week ending February 3, as the influenza pandemic is on track to be worse than the 2009 outbreak of swine flu.

California’s flu pandemic has killed 127 humans already this winter, and it is now rapidly spreading to dogs.

The CDC announced that the number of people seeking treatment for flu-like symptoms was the highest percentage since 2009.

A severe flu season is targeting the 2018 Super Bowl, causing fans and even NFL players to come down with the dreaded virus.

Ninety-seven people from ages zero to 64 have died in connection with contracting the flu this season in California alone.

California’s reported deaths from the ongoing influenza epidemic jumped over 50 percent, from 15 for the first week of 2018 to 32 for the second week of 2018.

TEL AVIV – Unlike their U.S. counterparts, Israeli doctors are not required to be vaccinated against influenza and in cases where they do receive the flu shot, they are forbidden from displaying a pin advertising that fact to patients, The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday.

A flu outbreak is forcing a North Texas school district to shut down for a week because the number of students, teachers, and staff exhibiting influenza-like symptoms continues to soar.

California reported deaths from the flu epidemic jumped by 50 percent from 10 for the last week of 2017 to 15 for the first week of 2018.

A new report says that Texas is the U.S. state hardest hit by the flu so far this season with widespread outbreaks.

A flu outbreak triggered a North Texas school district to shut its doors on Tuesday and Wednesday, top administrators announced Monday.