A total of 216 children have died of the flu during the 2024-25 season, the highest number since the swine flu pandemic in 2009-10. The previous high was set a year ago, when there were 207 ...

This flu season has been particularly bad for children, with many experiencing severe complications such as pneumonia, dehydration and organ failure. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

Respiratory disease season is off to a relatively slow start in the United States, but low vaccination rates threaten that trend and the rapid rise of some illnesses is already putting children at ...

This season, the flu has already claimed the lives of roughly 1,500 people across the country, including nine children. Five youngsters’ deaths were recorded between Dec. 15 and Dec. 21.

Why the CDC is warning that this flu season is on track to be one of the worst in a decade 03:26. This season's influenza vaccines may have been less effective against emergency room visits for ...

Since 2000, the deadliest flu season nationally was in 2017-18, when an estimated 52,000 deaths around the country were attributed to the influenza virus, according to data from the U.S. Centers ...

About 55.4 percent of U.S. children between the ages of 6 months and 17 received at least one dose of the flu vaccine during the 2023-24 season, down from 57.4 percent in the 2022-23 season and ...

Respiratory disease season is off to a relatively slow start in the United States, ... the hospitalization rate for adults hasn’t risen above 0.5 so far this season. Children’s hospitals ...