Sentences with phrase «flu deaths this year»

There were 16 additional pediatric deaths reported in the weekly report, bringing the total number of child flu deaths this year up to 53.

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Last year there were 13 deaths reported attributed to the flu in Monroe County.

During last year's flu season, there were 12,912 flu - related hospitalizations and 8 pediatric deaths in New York.

The latest numbers from the Monroe County Health Department show another two deaths tied to the flu; so far this season, there have been a total of five deaths in the county, with four of the deaths involving people 75 years of age or older, and one of the deaths involving someone between the ages of 50 and 64.

So this could mean 700 to 2000 extra deaths per year, depending on the flu strain circulating.

In recent years, between 71 percent and 85 percent of flu - related deaths have occurred among people 65 years of age and older, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The results of the study by Marc Baguelin and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK, Public Health England, and Athens University of Economics and Business, show that the current flu vaccination policy that targets people aged 65 years and over and also those in high risk groups has reduced the number of flu infections and associated deaths in these groups over the past 14 years.

But it seems that while the number of deaths in the US was comparable to a bad seasonal flu, swine flu claimed three times as many years of life because the victims were so young.

The current influenza (flu) vaccination policy in England and Wales should be expanded to target 5 to 16 - year - olds in order to further reduce the number of deaths from flu, according to a study by UK researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine.

Such studies reveal a bulge in deaths during and just after the flu season every year, mainly among the elderly.

Estimated U.S. flu - related deaths in recent years have ranged from 12,000 to 56,000, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

They calculated the number of deaths from the flu in each country by subtracting the average death rate during the pandemic years from those of the years before and after.

Tests have shown that a new form of hantavirus caused at least 26 deaths in the US this year from a mysterious flu - like illness.

By comparing weekly deaths and flu - related hospitalizations in each year's flu season, the researchers were able to calculate that for every percentage point increase in the A / H3N2 match rate, weekly deaths declined by about 0.0016 and hospitalizations declined by about 0.002 per 1,000 nursing home residents.

In the 1968 pandemic, however, just the H protein type was new, and the disease killed about 34,000 in the United States — a bit more than twice the previous year's flu - death toll.

Deaths due to influenza and pneumonia also went down during recessionary years, possibly because people had less of the kind of close physical contact with each other that transmits the flu virus.

In fact, a new study claims that there are at least 700 extra flu deaths in the United States every year because people suppress their fever.

Similarly, the 2009 H1N1 «swine flu» pandemic that caused the deaths of nearly a quarter million people may have started when a five - year - old became infected in a mountain village 120 miles east of Mexico City.

Brown University researchers found vaccines well matched to the year's flu strain significantly reduce deaths and hospitalizations compared to when the match is poor, suggesting that vaccination indeed makes a difference.

Flu vaccine is the best protection we have against an unpredictable virus which can cause severe illness and deaths each year among at - risk groups, including older people, pregnant women and those with a health condition, even one that is well managed.»

Heart attack deaths spike during the period between Christmas and New Year's — and not because of cold and flu season.

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Depending on how cold the present 30 - year cooling period gets, in addition to the higher death rates, we will have to contend with diminished growing seasons and increasing crop failures with food shortages in third world countries, increasing energy demands, changing environments, increasing medical costs from diseases (especially flu), increasing transportation costs and interruptions, and many other ramifications associated with colder climate.

The tragic death of eight - year - old Rosie Andersen from flu this week has followed the recent outbreaks in aged care facilities and subsequent deaths of residents in South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria.

While the share of doctor visits for flu - like symptoms plateaued during the week ended Feb. 10, indicating that flu season is waning, the number of deaths from this year's outbreak could outpace those from late 2009, which was marked by the swine - flu epidemic.