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Sunday, September 21, 2025
TopicInfluenza

Topic: Influenza

How to handle Covid plus dengue, malaria or seasonal flu? Health ministry issues guidelines

Ministry tells physicians to keep a ‘high index of suspicion’ and ‘constant awareness’ of the possibility of co-infections of seasonal diseases with Covid-19.

No difference in hospitalisation, ICU admission rates among kids with Covid & flu — US study

US study published in JAMA says there may be additional complications in Covid-19 management in flu season, recommends influenza vaccination.

The coronavirus crisis is a virtual replay of the past

Our current predicament may be less unique than we tend to believe, and the 1889 pandemic may be able to help us predict our future.

Covid-19 is much, much deadlier than the flu, bro

Numbers show the fatality risk from Covid-19 is much higher than that of influenza for every age group above 20.

Severity, lethality, defence: How new coronavirus stacks up against seasonal influenza

First reports of Covid-19 symptoms appeared on 8 December, in Wuhan. The World Health Organization declared it a pandemic on 11 March. And it’s not like common flu.

China’s love for wildlife meat to its authoritarianism — how coronavirus got out of hand

In Episode 413 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta explains China's obsession with exotic meats and how its authoritarian system led COVID-19 grow into a pandemic.

102 yrs before COVID-19, India braved The Bombay Fever pandemic that killed over 10 mn

The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 had claimed somewhere between 50 and 100 million lives worldwide, with India accounting for almost a fifth of the global death toll.

Experts fear coronavirus toll could match 1957 influenza pandemic that killed a million

Projections by infectious disease experts say Covid-19 may shape up on the same scale as the Asian flu pandemic of 1957 but is unlikely to match the 1918 Spanish flu.

New flu shot far more powerful than the 1940s breakthrough in preventing flu-like illnesses

Flucelvax, produced by Melbourne-based CSL’s Seqirus unit, is 36.2 % more effective than conventional shots in preventing flu-like illness that killed almost 200 American children last winter.

On Camera

Skin cancer is no more an ‘old person’s disease’

The sun isn’t acting alone—it has an accomplice in pollution. Environmental toxins weaken our skin’s natural barrier.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

60 yrs on, veterans recall lessons from 1965 India-Pakistan war. ‘Equipment alone doesn’t win battles’

A common thread runs through the memories of soldiers of the 1965 war—ingenuity, courage and camaraderie that withstood an apparently technologically superior foe.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.