Influenza News

Hospitalizations for influenza are the highest they have been at this time of year since 2010, the CDC reported Friday.

A surge of respiratory syncytial virus, an early start to influenza season and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have caused a “tripledemic” in the United States, overwhelming hospitals, experts said.

NEW YORK — In this video from the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium, Yvonne A. Maldonado, MD, discusses three emerging or reemerging infectious diseases: polio, monkeypox and highly pathogenic avian influenza virus.

The 35th annual Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium will be held Nov. 19 and 20 in New York.

Influenza reached epidemic levels in Chile months earlier than a typical influenza season, just like in several other Southern Hemisphere countries, researchers reported.

WASHINGTON — Pediatric influenza vaccination rates remain suboptimal compared with other childhood vaccines, and parents are even less concerned about influenza since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data reported here.

The COVID-19 pandemic and H1N1 epidemic were associated with adverse mental health events in adolescents and youth from low- and middle-income countries, researchers reported in JAMA Psychiatry.

Early use of oseltamivir in hospitalized children with influenza led to better outcomes, according to the results of a large study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

The FDA has approved the oral influenza medication Xofluza for children aged 5 to 11 years who have been symptomatic for no more than 48 hours, Genentech announced.

The quadrivalent live attenuated influenza vaccine — also known as the nasal spray vaccine — does not exacerbate asthma in children aged older than 4 years, according to data from a randomized controlled trial published in Pediatrics.