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'It'll be rough through January, most of February, likely. And then hopefully we'll start to see some relief,' according to Dr. Jason Bowling, an infectious diseases doctor at UT Health San Antonio and University Hospital.
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Group A strep has killed at least 24 children in England in the last four months. This has experts debating whether something has caused children to be more vulnerable to infectious diseases this fall, and if so, what?
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An outbreak of dog flu has been reported in Central Texas. Here’s a vet’s advice on how to help a sick pet.
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"We had no ICUs at that time. We had no antivirals, had no vaccines for flu. We had no idea that the flu was even a virus at that time," one scholar said. But social distancing helped then too.
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This flu season has turned out to be a tough one for children. There have been twice as many pediatric flu deaths so far this season than at the same time…
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Bexar County has reported the first death of a child from influenza this flu season. Metro Health has confirmed the child died during the last week of…
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Pregnant women and people with chronic health conditions such as asthma, diabetes and heart disease are particularly vulnerable to flu complications yet lag the elderly in getting vaccinated.
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Pregnant women in intensive care with severe cases of the flu have a higher risk of giving birth to babies prematurely. The risk of breathing problems for the baby is also substantially higher.
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The Guatemalan boy who died in U.S. custody on Christmas Eve had the flu. The New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator has confirmed 8-year-old…
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It’s been called the mother of all pandemics: Spanish flu. It roared around the globe in late 1918, infecting a third of the world's population, while…