Cold and Flu News & Features
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U.S. Flu Vaccinations Hit New Record High This Season
While many Americans await their turn for the COVID vaccine, a potentially record-setting number have already had their flu shot.
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What Happened to Flu Season?
The U.S. is seeing historically low levels of flu this season, which started in September 2020.
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Reasons Why Your Cough May Not Be Improving
Reasons why your cough persists (conditions that cause chronic cough) and what you may be doing to impede healing (lifestyle habits).
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33% of Parents Won't Get Flu Shots for Their Kids
Parents who didn't take their children for a flu shot last year are least likely to do so this year (less than a third), while parents who took their child for a flu shot last year were most likely to do so again (96%), according to the survey.
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What Is More Deadly in the U.S.: Hot Weather or Cold?
A new U.S. study finds that cold weather is responsible for most temperature-related deaths in Illinois.
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Flu Shots for Kids Protect Everybody, Study Shows
An increased vaccination rate among grade schoolers in California was associated with a decrease in flu hospitalizations for folks in every other age bracket, researchers report.
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New Swine Flu Poses Possible Pandemic Risk
The G4 virus is genetically descended from the H1N1 swine flu that caused a pandemic in 2009, CNN reported.
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Could Climate Change Make Flu Seasons Worse?
These findings suggest that rapid weather changes associated with climate change will increase the risk of flu epidemics in densely populated areas. For example, Europe could have a 50% increase in flu-related deaths, according to the researchers.
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Antibody Found That May Help Autoimmune Disorders
The investigators identified the myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) antibody in their study of 535 children with central nervous system demyelinating disorders and encephalitis.
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What Kind of Flu Did You First Get? It Matters
Knowing who is at a higher risk each year could help tailor pandemic and epidemic planning, the researchers say.
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Flu Season Sees A Second Peak
The flu season has picked up steam again, causing large numbers of infections in 47 states and giving the season a rare second peak.
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Mom on Son’s Flu: ‘Scariest Time of My Life’
The coma was the scariest, John says. "When I woke up, I thought it was still the day after Christmas," he says, "and it was actually New Year's Day."
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FDA Tells Purell Maker to Stop Making False Claims
The agency warned Gojo Industries that unsubstantiated claims that Purell can help prevent illnesses such as the flu, Ebola virus, norovirus and the MRSA superbug violate federal laws, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
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Something Far Deadlier Than The Wuhan Virus Lurks Near You
There is a virus that has already sickened at least 13 million Americans this winter, hospitalizing 120,000 and killing 6,600 people. You may even know of it.
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This Year's Flu Season Taking Deadly Aim at Kids
Fueled by a strain of influenza that children may be especially vulnerable to, less than two months into flu season 39 children have already died, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Could Your Fitbit Help Detect the Flu?
Research has shown that young men with fevers had increases in their resting heart rate of about 8.5 beats per minute (bpm) for about every 2-degree Fahrenheit increase in body temperature.
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Flu Shot No Match for 'B' Strain, Season Rages On
According to the CDC's estimates, there have been at least 9.7 million illnesses, 87,000 hospitalizations, and 4,800 deaths from flu this season.
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Is It Flu, Or Flu-Like? It's Miserable Either Way
“Influenza-like illness," also called “flu-like illness,” is a more wide-ranging category.
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4-Year-Old May Lose Vision After Battling Flu
Jade DeLucia, 4, of Iowa may be going home today after a bout of the flu landed her in the intensive care unit fighting for her life and her eyesight.
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B Strain Dominating Early in the Flu Season
Parents of small children should be concerned because the B strain is proving more dangerous for kids.
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Teachers Use Bread to Show Why Handwashing Matters
Still think hand sanitizers work just as well as soap and water? A recent classroom experiment gone viral might change your mind.
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Many Child Care Centers Don't Require Flu Shots
The investigators found that only 24.5% said their centers required children to have a flu shot, and only 13% required adult caregivers to have a flu shot.
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Early Flu Season Leads to Deaths of Texas Children
Six children ages 16 and younger have died from flu-related causes in Texas since the flu season began in late September as the earlier-than-usual start to the season has caught many people off guard.
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Why Colds and Flu Rarely Strike at Same Time
Patients with influenza A were about 70% less likely to also be infected with rhinovirus, a source of the common cold, than patients infected with other virus types.
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Beware of Workplace Germs
Germs live and thrive in the workplace. Find out about germ hot spots, when contamination is at its worst, and how to protect yourself.
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