With increasing time since diagnosis, only the severe infections continued to cause symptoms.
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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Weekly flu season reports resumed today in the United States and Europe, with low flu activity reported in both parts of the world, according to updates today from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and a collaboration between the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe.
Italy's chikungunya outbreak has expanded to a second region, and the total number of suspected or confirmed cases has climbed to 298 as of Oct 4, a rise of 115 cases from World Health Organization's update at the end of September.
The observational study found 46% protection but is smaller than an earlier one that showed no protection.
California researchers have developed a rapid test to detect antibiotic susceptibility in urinary tract infections (UTIs) in less than 30 minutes, which could allow patients to be diagnosed and prescribed effective antibiotics during just one healthcare visit, according to a study today in Science Translational Medicine.
The changes will not be reflected in the vaccine used in the upcoming Northern Hemisphere season.
By day 7, both treatment groups had similar rates of viral shedding.
State and county health officials in Maryland are investigating influenza in 11 pigs that were recently shown at a fair in Frederick County, the second time flu has been detected at the state's county fairs in as many weeks.
High flu activity continues in several parts of the world, especially in Australia, as well as some countries in southern Asia and southeast Asia, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its latest global flu update.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new cases of MERS-CoV yesterday and today.
Yesterday, a 37-year-old Saudi man from Al Hofuf was diagnosed as having MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus). He is in critical condition. The MOH said the source of his infection was primary, meaning he likely did not contract the disease from another person.
The results of a World Health Organization (WHO) working group investigation into pregnancy and influenza research from 2014 to 2017 showed mixed results when it came to the extent that maternal vaccine protected pregnant women and infants up the age of 6 months from influenza.
