how many children have died from the flu this season
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Flu Season 2017: Nine Children Have Died From Influenza So Far This Winter Another child died from the flu last week—the ninth to die so far this season, according to new data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, the number of people who died from pneumonia and the flu continued to stay below the seasonal baseline last week. The CDC estimates 12,000 to 56,000 people may die from the flu each year.
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- An estimated 675,000 Americans died of influenza during the pandemic, ten times as many as in the world war. Of the U.S. soldiers who died in Europe, half of them fell to the influenza virus and not to the enemy (Deseret News). An estimated 43,000 servicemen mobilized for WWI died of influenza (Crosby).
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How Many Flu Deaths Are Seen Each Year Even in a non-pandemic year, a lot of people die from the flu. Many die because of secondary complications, such as pneumonia or complications of chronic medical problems, but children also die from influenza each year.
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Deaths from Flu In an average year, flu leads to about 20,000 deaths nationwide and many more hospitalizations. Flu: Life Years Lost. Average life years lost from Flu: 9.5 years for pneumonia/influenza (SEER)1; 10.9 for pneumonia/influenza in North Carolina2; 4.3 average YPLL/person for pneumonia and influenza in Michigan3.
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- The CDC claims that deaths due to the annual flu range from 3,000 to 49,000 deaths each year. As can be seen from the graphic above, which is a screen shot of selected text directly from the CDC's own website, the CDC claims they don't really know how many people die from the flu each year.
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Healthy, young people are dying from the flu In California, 42 people under the age of 65 have died so far this season from the illness, and The CDC reports 26 states have high influenza-like illness activity. It's unsettling of course to have so many deaths associated with this strain of flu, said Dianna Wright, a physician assistant at Immediate Medical Care in Haysville.
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Statistics about Flu Prevalance of Flu: Every year, 10 percent to 20 percent of Americans get sick with the flu (influenza). (Source: excerpt from Focus On The Flu: NIAID) ... In the United States, approximately 25 percent of the population has flu-associated illness annually, leading to an average of 20,000 to 40,000 deaths per year.
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Flu patient spikes cause Texas school district closure, tents at California hospital CDC official on why the flu is near-epidemic, peaking early this year Brammer said this flu season is on par with the 2014-2015 season, when more than 700,000 people were hospitalized with the flu and nearly 130 died.
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At Least 30 Children Have Died From This Season's Flu. Some of Them Were Perfectly Healthy During last year’s flu season, 110 children died from the flu between November 2016 and September 2017, with 17 pediatric deaths reported through the second week of January last year. During the 2015-2016 flu season, 92 children died from the flu, with 10 child deaths by this point in the season.
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Flu deaths reality check Do thousands of Canadians really die every year from the flu? The flu folks keep saying so. I've already heard it repeated several times this year and flu season has just started. This is what the Public Health Agency of Canada said in a recent press release: Every year, between 2,000 and 8,000 Canadians die of the flu and its complications. In a CBC interview a few weeks ago an editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal said: Four thousand to 8,000 people die every year of influenza.
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2 flu-related deaths reported in S.E. Idaho During the last flu season, 26 people were reported to have died from influenza-related illnesses across the state, with six of those deaths coming from Southeast Idaho. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that approximately 36,000 people die from influenza-related illnesses each year.
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How Many People Die From Flu and Other Questions, Answered Here's what you need to know. How many people die from the flu? The 2018 flu season is getting attention, and for good reason. It's a particularly vicious one dominated by the H3N2 flu strain, which is especially dangerous for elder Americans. In San Diego, California, 34 people died from the flu in the last week of 2017 alone.
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CDC Inflates Flu Death Stats to Sell More Flu Vaccines Don't Believe Everything You Read About Flu Deaths. ADVERTISEMENT. Flu results in about 250,000 to 500,000 yearly deaths worldwide, Wikipedia tells us. The typical estimate is 36,000 [deaths] a year in the United States, reports NBC, citing the Centers for Disease Control.
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How Many People Die From The Flu Every Year In The US? How Many People Die From The Flu Every Year In The US? 23 March 2017 / Category: News Off comments According to the CDC, the flu kills a surprising 3,300 to 49,000 people every year. This rather high number varies greatly in any given year, and according to many health experts is pretty exaggerated.
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Swine Flu: Death by Influenza There are an estimated 36,000 deaths due to seasonal influenza each year in the US. The current swine flu outbreak has caused a total of 7 deaths in Mexico and 1 death in the US (according to WHO).
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Flu widespread throughout the nation, 30 children dead For older people, the CDC estimates deaths based on pneumonia and influenza. Based on National Center for Health Statistics data, 8.2% of all deaths that occurred during the week ending January 13 were due to pneumonia and influenza. This is above the rate considered normal for this period, according to Lynnette Brammer, head of the CDC's Domestic Flu Surveillance team.
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Estimating Seasonal Influenza-Associated Deaths in the United States CDC estimated that from the 1976-1977 season to the 2006-2007 flu season, flu-associated deaths ranged from a low of about 3,000 to a high of about 49,000 people.
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- The strain of influenza that is circulating can change from year to year, and the vaccine is adjusted yearly in an attempt to predict which will predominate. 1  2015-16 Flu Season: Late start with 77 pediatric flu deaths. 2  2014-15 Flu Season: 148 pediatric flu deaths (drifted H3N2 vaccine strain predominate).
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Flu vaccine less than 20 percent effective against H3N2 strain, researchers say The state has reported 95 flu deaths. Overwhelmed by flu cases, some ERs turn ambulances away; Schools in at least 12 states close to fight against the flu; In all, 49 states have reported widespread flu outbreaks, and health officials say the flu season's peak is still two to three weeks away.
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CDC Reports More Americans Getting Flu Shots Every year, an estimated 5 percent to 20 percent of Americans come down with the flu, leading to 200,000 hospitalizations -- including 20,000 children under the age of 5.
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CDC Reports About 90 Percent of Children Who Died From Flu This Season Not Vaccinated CDC began tracking flu-associated pediatric deaths after the 2003-2004 flu season – a season that, like the current flu season, started early and was intense. In addition, it took a high toll on children. In the 2003-2004 season, 153 pediatric deaths were reported to CDC from 40 states.
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Influenza Deaths That’s about 120 deaths per million people in the US. In Oregon, population about 3 million, that would be about 360 people a year, which is two deaths a day for the six month flu season. “Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.”–George Carlin.
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- Widespread flu activity across 49 states, leaves 37 children dead so far, and there's likely many more weeks to come of the flu season, CDC says. Widespread flu activity across 49 states, leaves 37 children dead so far, and there's likely many more weeks to come of the flu season, CDC says. Breaking News Health +
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Flu Season is Getting Worse, CDC Says Flu usually hits the very young and the very old the hardest. Depending on the season, it kills anywhere between 4,000 and 50,000 people a year in the United States. Because each flu case is not counted, public health experts have to estimate flu’s toll, and don’t get a good picture until the end of the season. “So far in the 2016-2017 influenza season, Influenza A (H3N2) viruses have been identified most frequently in the U.S.,” the CDC says.
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Officials: 4 Children Die of Flu-related Illnesses By MARK GILLISPIE, Associated Press. CLEVELAND (AP) — Four Ohio children have died of flu-related illnesses in the past two weeks as the number of cases statewide appears to be peaking, health officials said Monday.
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Spanish Flu The 1918 flu, or Spanish flu, caused the highest number of known influenza deaths. More than 500,000 people died in the United States, and up to 50 million people may have died worldwide. Many people died within the first few days after infection with the Spanish flu, and others died of related complications.