The CDC says so far this season, there have been nearly three million illnesses, 23,000 hospitalizations and 1,300 deaths from the flu.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning about a Listeria outbreak linked to deli meat and cheese.
State Health officials say South Carolina is already seeing widespread flu activity.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continue to encourage everyone to get your flu shot, and take precautions against respiratory illnesses like Respiratory Syncytial Virus, or RSV.
The CDC changed it’s guidelines for doctors prescribing opioids for their patients.
Many patients with severe monkeypox had untreated HIV, the CDC said.
According to the CDC, interest in Covid-19 vaccine boosters is declining.
New research finds sleep may be just as important to heart health as diet and exercise, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a third of U.S. adults report getting less zzzzz’s than recommended.
Officials from South Carolina DHEC and Prisma Health are encouraging everyone to get the flu shot as soon as possible. “We’ve definitely seen a dramatic jump in the number of flu cases this year than any recent flu season. So in the last 8 years, we never really started above the baseline level of flu illnesses, and we’re already above that baseline here in the very first week of flu season,” says Dr. Knoche.
According to data from the CDC, between 2016 and 2019, nearly six million children were diagnosed with anxiety and nearly three million were diagnosed with depression.
