Tag: flu season
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. flu season is underway, with cases surging across much of the country, health officials said Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted sharp increases in several measures,…
TOPEKA — Physicians and public health researchers anticipate a surge in COVID-19 infection during the holiday months would complicate the medical response to rising prevalence of flu and a tricky influenza virus. The trifecta of…
Dear Dr. Roach: I just read your advice on when to get a flu vaccine. I have always received my flu vaccine around October-November, until the past two years, when I got it in August-September.…
NEW YORK (AP) — This winter’s mild flu season has faded to a trickle of cases in much of the U.S., but health officials aren’t ready to call it over. Since the beginning of the…
Do you know anyone who had influenza this past year? Chances are you do not. Sure, plenty of people had the “stomach flu” with vomiting and diarrhea, otherwise known as gastroenteritis. Some people had colds…
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,…
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…
Its time to start thinking about the coming flu season. The Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Department is offering its annual drive-thru flu clinic from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday in the parking lot at…
NEW YORK (AP) Health officials think theres a strong chance this flu season has peaked, but they are watching a recent wave of illnesses from a nastier flu strain. The Centers for Disease Control…
