A total of 11% of RSV patients experienced a cardiac event, abnormal heart rhythm, heart failure, or ischemic heart disease.
The loss of activity is equivalent to 15% of the US population becoming completely immobile for 1 day.
Adult COVID-19 patients also infected with the flu are 4 times more likely to need mechanical ventilation and 2.4 times more likely to die.
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According to the World Health Organization's (WHO's) online Ebola dashboard, officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) tracked 5 new cases of Ebola today, raising the outbreak total to 3,403, including 2,235 fatalities. The death toll has not changed since last week.
A total of 410 suspected cases are still under investigation.
Possible reasons include low natural immunity and viral evolution.
In an alert, the CDC says influenza B and the H1N1 strain are predominating.
Most of North America, Europe, and Central Asia started the new year with rising rates of influenza.
Influenza B is still the dominant strain, accounting for about two-thirds of flu positives, with most of the influenza A activity from 2009 H1N1.
Three more child flu deaths were reported, all from influenza B.
Flu levels continued to rise in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia, with some countries reporting higher than normal influenza B activity, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Dec 20 in its latest global flu update.
Influenza B is still outpacing other flu viruses in a season now 6 weeks old.
Three more Ebola cases have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), raising the outbreak total to 3,354 cases, according to numbers reflected on the World Health Organization (WHO) online Ebola dashboard.
Health officials are still investigating 488 suspected cases. Also, 3 more people died from their infections, lifting the fatality count to 2,220.
Today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) British authors offered evidence supporting a long-observed phenomenon of the cold and flu season: Having either a rhinovirus or influenza makes a person less likely to contract the other virus.
