This year, flu trends look to be closely in line with the 2019 to 2020 season, which also reached peak levels around the New Year. Some of the highest levels of influenza are now in Western states ...

Flu season, or when there's an uptick in cases ... and Norway had the highest overall burden of flu between 2017 and 2019. Still, the WHO reports that there are about 290,000–650,000 deaths ...

There were 200 pediatric flu-related deaths in the 2023-2024 season, compared to the previous high of 199 during the 2019-2022 season. Dr. Meghan Martin, a pediatric emergency physician ...

This year’s surge, the highest numbers in seven years, has been aggravated by the combination of a particularly infectious AH1 variant which has not been around since the 2018/2019 flu season ...

Flu season tends to peak in early January. This year’s surge has been blamed on the particularly infectious AH1 variant which has not been around since the 2018/2019 flu season. Health Service ...

HEALTH Minister Terrence Deyalsingh has appealed to the public to not panic over the human metapneumovirus (hMPV), which has ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Two children under the age of 17 are now dead after getting sick with the flu last week. However, due to privacy concerns, the Oregon Health Authority is not providing ...

Two children died of the flu in Oregon over Christmas week, the first such pediatric deaths in the state in two years, according to state health officials. They’re among 11 deaths of children ...

Several countries expanded their influenza jab guidelines this year, but vaccination rates remain sub-optimal, health experts ...

Since COVID emerged at the end of the 2019-2020 respiratory virus season, it has been by far the ... not subsiding until late August—and 89 flu deaths. After the late summer surge, COVID deaths ...

Influenza activity in the state is “high,” as Ohio Department of Health data showed a recent 116% increase in flu hospitalizations. There were 162 new flu hospitalizations reported in ODH’s ...