CDC News and Highlights (Influenza): Featured Photo, CDC Collaborative Study, Influenza Recognition Awards

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Title: CDC News and Highlights (Influenza): Featured Photo, CDC Collaborative Study, Influenza Recognition Awards

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Influenza (Flu)

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CDC Influenza News and Highlights
April 1, 2016

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Situation Update: Summary of Weekly FluView Report
FluView - Weekly Influenza Surveillance Report

Weekly Influenza Surveillance

The most recent FluView report shows that flu activity decreased slightly, but remains elevated in United States. While it’s possible that activity might have peaked for the season, some parts of the country are still experiencing high levels of flu activity and ongoing activity is expected to continue for several weeks nationally.

CDC recommends a yearly flu vaccine for everyone 6 months and older. Vaccination can reduce flu illnesses, doctors' visits, and missed work and school due to flu illness, as well as prevent flu-related hospitalizations.

CDC also recommends that patients suspected of having influenza who are athigh risk of flu complications or who are very sick with flu-like illness should receive prompt treatment with influenza antiviral drugs without waiting for confirmatory testing.

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Featured Photo for International Influenza

A laboratory technician performs hemaggluttination inhibition (HI) testing. China. 2014-2015 flu season.

Scientists use the HI assay to antigenically characterize circulating seasonal influenza viruses.

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CDC Collaborative Study: Influenza Important Cause of Respiratory Hospitalizations Worldwide

A study by CDC authors and global partners published today in the journal PLOS Medicine looked at influenza surveillance data from 350 sites in 60 countries and found that influenza was responsible for about 10% of respiratory hospitalizations in all children younger than 18 years worldwide, with a range by age group of 5% to 16%. The highest proportion of respiratory hospitalizations attributed to flu occurred among children 5 years to 17 years of age. 

The study is the first to look at global flu-associated hospitalizations in that age group. The study also broke down hospitalizations by region and found that the majority of flu-associated hospitalizations in young children occur in developing countries. Study authors suggest that increasing influenza vaccination coverage among young children and pregnant women worldwide could reduce this burden.

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Influenza Recognition Awards

Highlights Influenza Division staff who have been recognized by awards.

• Arnold S. Monto Award
• Alexander I. Klimov Award
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

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Content source: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

 

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