US seasonal flu cases skyrocket to highest level in at least 15 years: CDC

Newly released information shows the existent U.S. flu season is shattering caller records, topping numbers dating to the aboriginal 2000s, erstwhile swine flu plagued the country.

Numbers released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Friday greeting showed astir 50,000 radical were admitted to hospitals with influenza, and 10 children died of seasonal flu during the 5th week of the year.

A flu vaccine displayed astatine a pharmacy successful New York Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon, File)

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The CDC estimates determination person been astatine slightest 24 cardinal illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations and 13,000 deaths from the flu truthful acold this season, which started Oct. 1. Nearly 60 of the deaths were children.

Although COVID-19 and RSV cases look to beryllium falling nationally, the flu, which typically peaks successful February, has forced schools to temporarily adjacent successful immoderate states, according to The Associated Press.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention office successful Atlanta (Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The Godley Independent School District, which serves 3,200 Texas students, closed for aggregate days past week aft astir 700 students and unit were absent connected a azygous day, the AP reported. School district spokesperson Jeff Meador said it has been the worst flu play helium remembers.

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Of the 50 states, 43 reported precocious oregon precise precocious flu enactment successful the 5th week of 2025, according to CDC data.

The astir enactment was detected in Texas, New Mexico, Nebraska, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, South Carolina, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New York City, according to a CDC map.

The CDC reported 43 states had precocious oregon precise precocious flu enactment successful the 5th week of 2025. (CDC)

While wellness officials urge the yearly flu changeable to those older than 6 months, lone astir 44% of adults got flu shots this winter, the AP reported. 

Children's vaccinations dropped from 50% to 45%.

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It is unclear however palmy this year's flu vaccine volition be.

Fox News Digital precocious reported the CDC is intimately monitoring reports of a spike successful human metapneumovirus (HMPV) successful China.

HMPV, which was discovered successful 2001, remains astatine pre-pandemic levels and presents the aforesaid arsenic the communal cold, according to the CDC.