The Biden administration will pay $176 million to Moderna to create an “mRNA-based pandemic influenza vaccine,” with health officials citing “lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“Dual mutant” strains of H1N1 influenza have been confirmed in at least two people in America, but medicines may not be able to combat the strains.
The CDC has warned state health officials to prepare for a surge of bird flu cases in humans as more cattle herds test positive.
Australian health authorities warned on Tuesday that they are documenting an increase in the number of diagnosed infections of mycoplasma pneumoniae, a bacterial infection that causes respiratory illness and was listed among several pathogens particularly affecting children in China in the last months of 2023.
The fear of a “tripledemic” is rising as cases of flu, coronavirus, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) surge across the U.S.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data on Friday showing a significant jump in influenza cases over the past week as the illness sweeps across the nation.
The Chinese National Health Commission (NHC) warned during a press conference on Thursday that the “explosive surge” in travel expected for the Lunar New Year in February will result in elevated levels of Wuhan coronavirus infection and, potentially, an increase in “the risk of severe illness and death.”
Chinese officials warned that hospitals are running low on blood due to the massive winter outbreak of influenza and respiratory illnesses.
China’s outbreak of pediatric respiratory disease marches on, spreading far wider and lasting longer than Communist Party health officials anticipated.
China’s Ministry of Education issued a directive on Tuesday for its schools to “enhance the awareness of daily protection and health monitoring” in response to an ongoing surge in child pneumonia cases nationwide, appearing to most severely affect Beijing and northeast China.
Hospitals in China are expanding study areas so that children diagnosed with respiratory diseases can keep up with schoolwork, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday, in response to a growing wave of pneumonia in children believed to be exacerbated by years of coronavirus lockdowns.
China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday reported hospitals are bracing for a surge of respiratory infections among the elderly, beginning in mid-December and peaking “around New Year’s Day in 2024.”
Chinese officials are once again telling the public to wear masks as various respiratory diseases surge alongside a rise in coronavirus cases.
U.S. health officials predict the approaching cooler months will be similar to those in 2022 concerning viruses affecting the nation.
U.S. health officials are warning of what some media outlets have dubbed a “tripledemic,” anticipating the prevalence of coronavirus, flu, and RSV this fall and winter.
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.
The Canadian healthcare system is experiencing an acute shortage of basic painkillers, particularly acetaminophen and ibuprofen, which are commonly used to relieve pain and fever in children during flu season.
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].”
Moderna is aiming to launch a single-shot vaccine booster to treat both coronavirus and influenza as soon as fall of 2023, according to CEO Stephane Bancel.
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.
