There have been at least 26 million illnesses, 290,000 hospitalisations, and 18,000 deaths from flu so far this season in the US, according to the latest estimates published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
A total of 117 pediatric flu deaths have been reported in the country this season, according to the CDC on Friday.
The number and weekly rate of flu hospital admissions continued to decline in the country. About 1,500 people were hospitalised with flu in the latest week ending February 25, CDC data showed.
The CDC recommends that everyone aged 6 months and above get an annual flu vaccine as long as flu activity continues, Xinhua news agency reported.
There are also prescription flu antiviral drugs that can be used to treat flu illness, which need to be started as early as possible, said the CDC.
Peace will return soon in Manipur, says Supreme Court's Justice Gavai; inaugurates legal, medical aid camps
Supreme Court judge, Justice B. R. Gavai, who is leading a five-member team of apex court judges currently visiting violence-hit Manipur, on Saturday said that peace would prevail in this land and peace would return soon and "let us all work together to bring peace and justice".
5-member SC judges team meets violence-hit people in Manipur; opens legal services, medical camps
A five-member team of Supreme Court judges, headed by Justice B. R. Gavai on Saturday, visited the camps for the ethnic violence affected in Manipur's Churachandpur and Bishnupur districts and met displaced men, women and children sheltering there, officials said.