CDC News and Highlights (Influenza): Flu Season Wrap-up, Flu Vaccine Recall Notice

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Title: CDC News and Highlights (Influenza): Flu Season Wrap-up, Flu Vaccine Recall Notice
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CDC Influenza News and Highlights
May 1, 2015

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Situation Update: Summary of Weekly FluView

FluView - Weekly Influenza Surveillance Report

Sanofi Pasteur Reports Flu Vaccine Recall for Three Lots of Vaccine from 2014-2015 Season

Update on H3N2 Canine Influenza (Dog Flu) Virus

2014-2015 Flu Season Drawing to a Close

Weekly Influenza Surveillance

Flu activity continues to decline and is below national baseline levels. However, activity remains elevated in parts of the northeast. While most flu activity occurs from October to May in the United States, flu viruses are detected year-round, including at lower levels during the spring and summer months.

H3N2 viruses predominated earlier in the season, however, influenza B viruses have been more common in recent weeks. This season has been severe for people 65 years and older, with very high hospitalization rates being recorded.

Influenza antiviral drugs can treat flu illness. CDC recommends these drugs be used to treat people who are very sick or who are at high risk of serious flu-related complications who have flu symptoms. Early antiviral treatment works best.

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2014-2015 Flu Season Drawing to a Close

Flu activity continues to decline, according to the most recent FluView, which reports that influenza-like-illness (ILI) in the United States has fallen below baseline for the second consecutive week since the middle of November. Other key indicators are declining as well, signaling that the 2014-15 flu season is drawing to a close. The April 24, 2015 FluView covers influenza activity reported from April 12-April 18, 2015.

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Sanofi Pasteur Reports Flu Vaccine Recall for Three Lots of Vaccine from 2014-2015 Season

Sanofi Pasteur has notified CDC and FDA that it is recalling three lots of its Fluzone® Quadrivalent flu vaccine supplied in multidose vials. The lot numbers included in this recall are UI196AA, UI190AC and UI190AD. The recall does not affect other lots of Fluzone® Quadrivalent vaccine in multi-dose vials or any other presentations of Sanofi Pasteur’s Fluzone® vaccines. Sanofi Pasteur voluntarily initiated this recall because the vaccine’s potency fell below a pre-specified limit prior to the expiration of the vaccine.

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