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Full influenza vaccination among children cuts hospitalization in half
This article appeared in University of Michigan News. Read the full story here. Fully vaccinating children reduces the risk of hospitalization associated with influenza by 54%, according to a study by researchers at the University of Michigan, the Clalit Research...
The lessons we can learn from Congo’s measles outbreak
This article appeared in The Washington Post. Read more here. Spreading faster than Ebola, and with a higher death toll, measles has ravaged all 26 provinces of Congo in a year. More than 6,000 people have died, and more than 311,000 have become infected. The virus...
Follow the Right Path: A Traditional Vaccine Schedule
This op-ed by Michigan Medicine Expert Jordyn Imhoff appeared in Michigan Health. Read more here. Once-forgotten diseases have returned to the forefront of everyone’s attention after outbreaks like the recent Measles cases. Unvaccinated children are around 25 times...
Elementary school closes after flu-like symptoms sicken students, teachers
This article appeared in MLive. Read more here. More than 90 students and teachers at Holland Public School’s West Elementary were absent Wednesday with flu-like symptoms, forcing the school to close the rest of this week. “Student health and safety is always our...
Flu blamed for two more Allegheny County deaths
This article appeared in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Read more here. Two more Allegheny County residents have died due to influenza complications, the county’s health department confirmed on Wednesday, bringing this season’s total to three. “One resident was in their...
Department of Health confirms 4 flu deaths in Tennessee
This article appeared in WKRN. Read more here. Tennessee Department of Health officials say there are now four confirmed deaths from the current flu season. Two are in the Middle Grand Division and the other two are in the East Grand Division. Why are only pediatric...
9 flu deaths reported last week in San Diego
This article appeared in FOX 5 News, San Diego. Read more here. Nine flu-related deaths were reported in San Diego County last week, the County Health and Human Services Agency said Wednesday. Before news of the additional deaths broke, 11 San Diegans had been...
‘This is very strange’: Rare early emergence of influenza B virus puts children at higher risk
This article appeared in USA Today. Read the full story here. As an infectious disease specialist for the better part of four decades, Bernhard “Bud’’ Wiedermann has deep expertise on a range of illnesses, from malaria to Lyme disease to recurrent fevers. This year’s...
Mid-Michigan hospitals implementing visitor restrictions due to flu widespread
This article appeared in ABC 12. Read more here. The state of Michigan is getting hit hard by illnesses. According to a map from the healthcare company Kinsa, Michigan is the second sickest state in the U.S. right now with more than 7% of people under the weather....
Doctors Urge Parents to Protect Kids, Get Flu Shots
This article appeared in NBC Chicago. Read more here. Doctors are issuing renewed calls for parents to get flu vaccines for their children, as 32 children around the country, including one in Chicago, have already died from complications of the disease this flu...