Maine is reporting its first influenza-related little one dying in additional than two years.
The Maine Middle for Illness Management and Prevention introduced the primary pediatric dying of the 2021-22 flu season on Tuesday, saying the kid examined optimistic for influenza A. Previous to this case, the final influenza-associated pediatric dying in Maine occurred in February 2020.
The Maine CDC didn’t present the kid’s age or when the kid died. Influenza-associated deaths of people youthful than 18 years outdated should be reported in Maine.
Influenza continues to flow into at elevated ranges in Maine, the CDC mentioned. The flu sometimes peaks in February, when individuals are most frequently indoors and the virus can unfold simply. It tends to dissipate within the spring, when the climate warms and folks head open air, the place the sickness is just not so simply unfold.
However Dr. Nirav D. Shah, director of the Maine CDC, issued warnings in mid-Could that there had been 9 outbreaks of flu-like sicknesses within the state – the best quantity in a single week since February 2020, simply earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
“Influenza exercise is on the rise. Although sometimes low this time of 12 months, Maine has been experiencing a rise. Most indicators are greater than another time because the begin of the pandemic,” Shah tweeted.
There have been 9 influenza-related deaths in Maine and 7 individuals have been hospitalized with the flu this season, in line with the influenza surveillance report the state launched Tuesday for the interval ending Could 28.
The Maine CDC mentioned that though the flu season has formally ended, it is going to proceed to supply weekly surveillance reviews till flu exercise has subsided.
Influenza may cause a fever, a cough or a sore throat. Affected people additionally might expertise a runny or stuffy nostril, muscle or physique aches, complications and fatigue. Most individuals expertise gentle signs, however sure age teams, together with younger kids, individuals 65 and older, pregnant girls and folks with sure medical situations are in danger for extra critical sickness.
The Maine CDC recommends that everybody over the age of 6 months will get a yearly flu vaccine. Influenza vaccine is offered without charge by the state of Maine for all kids beneath 19.
Flu might be handled with antiviral treatment.
Washing arms ceaselessly, masking your cough, getting vaccinated and staying residence when sick are all methods to forestall getting contaminated or spreading flu.
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