Flu vaccine as high as 59% effective for children 6 months to 8 years old: CDC The flu and pneumonia are now killing nearly 4,000 Americans each week, according to health official ...

The nation recorded one of its worst totals for child deaths from the flu this past season, coinciding with troubling drops in U.S. vaccination rates, federal health officials warned. Nearly 200 ...

One-third of American parents said they plan to skip the flu shot for their kids this fall, while two-thirds said it’s not more important to get their children vaccinated for flu during Covid-19 ...

So far this season,105 children have died from the flu, according to data released Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is the highest number of child flu deaths at ...

The deadliest flu season for children was in 2009-10, with 282 deaths (or 3.8 deaths per 1 million children). That flu season began a few months after the H1N1 “swine flu” was identified in ...

During recent flu seasons, deaths among children have ranged from 37 to 187. As always, the best protection against the flu is getting a flu shot, health experts said.

Flu killed 216 children nationwide this season, the highest toll in years. New York, where 25 children died, saw a record number of pediatric deaths during the 2024-25 season.

A CDC advisory has recommended to ban the use of thimerosal in flu shots despite no evidence that it causes any harm.

Of the 25 children who died from flu, only one was vaccinated, the state health commissioner, Dr. James V. McDonald, noted. Five were too young to be vaccinated, he said in a statement.

More children have died from flu at this point in the season than at any other time since the CDC began collecting pediatric death data in 2004, except for the 2009-2010 swine flu pandemic.

Among children under 5 years old, a little under 30% have received a flu vaccine, compared to nearly 50% in the 2020-2021 flu ...