Study Finds More Sent to Hospitals with Flu
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Influenza is sending more people to the hospital in the United States each year and the flu season appears to be getting longer, a government study said on Tuesday.
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The region&#39;s largest hospital alliance is worried that it won&#39;t have enough flu shots to provide to employees and patients for the upcoming flu season.
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Each year the influenza virus infects between 5 percent and 20 percent of our country&#39;s population, bringing 200,000 hospitalizations and more than 36,000 deaths.
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An unusually high number of children  have suffered severe illnesses from influenza in Alabama this  year, which has some experts worried, a pediatrician said on  Thursday.
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Hospital practices are more to blame than how sick a person is for infections acquired by hospital patients, researchers reported on Monday, urging medical centers to do more to curb these infections.
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Last year over 36,000 Americans died from exposure to the flu, and of those, more than 32,000 were 65 years of age or older. Another 200,000 people were hospitalized with symptoms of the illness.
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The number of people hospitalized in the United States because of the flu has climbed over the past 20 years to an average of more than 200,000 a year, in large part because of the aging of the population, a government study found.
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The flu virus is becoming resistant to key drugs which are used to treat it, a study suggests. Doctors in Japan carried out tests on 50 children who were admitted to hospital with flu in 2002 and 2003.
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During last year's influenza  season, the number of infants and toddlers in the US who were  vaccinated against the flu varied by tenfold between different  locations, according to a new report.
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Health officials yesterday said 22.4 million unshipped doses of flu vaccine will be made available to people who are most at risk of getting the virus.
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SAN DIEGO -- US health officials announced Tuesday they have tracked down more than a million new doses of the flu vaccine and some are expected to reach San Diego.
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SAN DIEGO - San Diego County health authorities today received from the state an additional 24,000 doses of adult flu vaccine â-o be distributed to those considered at high risk for complications from the illness.
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Michigan has 3.4 million people in the high-risk categories to get the flu, but only 2 million doses are available, the state health department said Thursday.
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Regional Health Department works to make sure that area&#39;s elderly people living in group settings receive scarce flu shots. A new supply of flu vaccine is finding its way to area nursing homes.
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Nearly 3.2 million influenza vaccine doses were shipped this week to health providers serving high priority groups as part of the plan announced on October 12 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Aventis Pasteur.
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COLUMBIA, SC -- There is good news for people deemed high risk for the flu who missed their first chance at a flu vaccine. The Department of Health and Environmental Control said Friday afternoon that 190,000
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Half of all U.S. states would run out of hospital beds within the first two weeks of a moderate flu pandemic and 47 states would run out if a bad one hit, according to a report issued on Tuesday.