ATLANTA, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. flu activity continued to decrease during the week ending Feb. 22, but was high in Hawaii and Oklahoma, federal health officials say. The weekly flu report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
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Vaccination reduced the risk of pregnant women getting the flu by half from 2010 to 2012, federal health officials said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the flu shot as a priority for pregnant women because ...
Flu season continues to tighten its grip on the United States, with 35 states now experiencing widespread influenza activity, federal officials reported Friday. The flu seems to be hitting young and middle-aged adults the hardest this ...
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Influenza activity remained high in the U.S. South and South Central states for the week ending Jan. 4, but remains low in the Northeast, officials say. The weekly flu report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said flu ...
Influenza killed 10, hospitalized 300 -- 40 in intensive care -- and created long lines for many seeking a flu shot in Alberta, Canada, officials say. Dr. James Talbot, the chief medical officer of health for Alberta Health, said the ...
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It's not possible to predict which viruses will predominate for the entire 2013-14 flu season, but so far pH1N1 is the most prevalent, U.S. officials say. In a notice to clinicians, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in ...
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For the week ending Dec. 21, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas reported high flu activity, but in most of the country flu was low. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the proportion of ...
For the week ending Dec. 14, U.S. influenza increased nationwide, but Texas was hard hit with more than a dozen critically ill and six dead, officials say. The influenza strain H1N1 -- the same strain that caused the 2009 pandemic -- ...
NanoViricides has received results of detailed lab analysis studies from the initial non-GLP toxicology studies of intravenously administered FluCide. No overt adverse safety and toxicology effects were observed in this study of the ...
For the week ending Nov. 16, flu activity was high in Mississippi, but low overall across most of the nation, federal health officials say. The proportion of people seeing their healthcare provider for influenza-like illness remains below ...
For the week of Nov. 9, U.S. flu activity was low but increasing in the South, with the first two influenza-related pediatric deaths, health officials say. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the proportion of people ...
For the week ending Nov. 2, U.S. influenza activity remained low, but Mississippi reported moderate activity, federal health officials say. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said of 4,118 specimens tested 4.9 percent tested ...
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