Influenza — Worldwide/Unknown
Influenza B causes higher death rates in children than the more common influenza A, according to a study from Canadian researchers published this week in Pediatrics.
The investigators analyzed data on 1510 children hospitalized with influenza B and 2645 children hospitalized with influenza A from 8 non-pandemic flu seasons from 2004 to 2013. Median age was young: 3.9 years for the former group and 2.0 for the latter.
The team found that 1.1 percent of the flu B and 0.4 percent of the flu
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