The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has issued new vaccine recommendations affecting RSV and flu ...

Flu season is off to an early start again this year. While cases are rising across the US, southern states and Puerto Rico have been hit the hardest so far.

Surveillance of pediatric flu deaths did not begin until 2003, but since then, the deadliest flu season for children was 2008-2009, when 37 children reportedly died in the state.

A children’s flu vaccine, usually given in a nasal spray, is available on the NHS for children aged two or three years, school-aged children (reception to Year 11), and children aged six months ...

The flu vaccination rate for U.S. children has decreased from about 64% five years ago to 49% this season. AP The CDC report did not say how many of the children who died were vaccinated.

In September, 55.4% of children aged 6 months to 17 years were vaccinated against the flu, a significant drop from the nearly 64% who’d been vaccinated in the 2019-2020 pre-pandemic season.

Between 2010 and February 8, 2025, 1,840 children died of the flu. Of those, 166 had IAE checked off as a complication. IAE was most prevalent in children aged 2 to 4 but affected children in all ...

One chart shows, the 258 flu deaths Washington has had to date is already higher than this time of any flu season dating back to the 2016 to 2017 flu season. More than 200 of those deaths were ...

At Children’s Hospital New Orleans, that has resulted in a full hospital across departments. The hospital has 34 NICU beds and currently 50 babies in need of care.

In 2019, the country of Samoa experienced a severe flu outbreak amid extremely low vaccination rates.More than 5,700 people became ill. In a little over three months, 83 people died and 1,868 were ...

California is now reporting very high flu levels, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as the respiratory illness continues to surge nationwide. The CDC uses five ...