Tag: influenza
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Wednesday it will release doses of prescription flu medicine from the Strategic National Stockpile to states as flu-sickened patients continue to flock to hospitals and doctors’ offices around…
TOPEKA — Health officials urge Kansans to get booster shots before the holidays, warning of a “trifecta” of illnesses spreading this year, including flu, respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, and COVID-19, and a limited number…
The clunky word “tripledemic” is now on many lips. It means we now face a winter with three different respiratory viruses with similar symptoms are spreading rapidly, and stressing hospital capacity. Public health is not…
Wash your hands and stay home if you are sick. It’s simple advice that will be repeated again and again as the local community, the nation and the world adjust to a deadly new coronavirus,…
That China let the initial spread of a new virus go unchecked is, ironically, symptomatic of its obsessive need for control. President Xi Jinping’s insistence on secrecy and a facade of perfection has led to…
HIAWATHA, Kan. (AP) The family of a 9-year-old Kansas girl say she has died after being diagnosed with influenza in neighboring Nebraska. The family of Leighya Marie DeLong, of Hiawatha, confirmed to Topeka television…
NEW YORK (AP) The U.S. winter flu season is off to its earliest start in more than 15 years. An early barrage of illness in the South has begun to spread more broadly, and…
NEW YORK (AP) Its early, but the current flu season is shaping up to be gentler than last winters unusually brutal one, U.S. health officials said. In most parts of the country, most illnesses…
