Seasonal flu

Seasonal flu aka influenza

Flu antiviral treatments
''There are four U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved flu antiviral drugs that are recommended by CDC for use in children this flu season:
 * Oseltamivir (Tamiflu®)
 * Zanamivir (Relenza®, Diskhaler®)
 * Peramivir (Rapivab®)
 * Baloxavir (Xofluza®)

Flu vaccination in the US
Despite the many benefits offered by flu vaccination, only about half of Americans get an annual flu vaccine and flu continues to cause millions of illnesses, hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and tens of thousands of deaths.

News

 * 24 Nov 2021, CDC.gov, [https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2021/han00458.asp Increasing seasonal influenza a (h3n2) activity, especially among young adults and in college and university settings, during sars-cov-2 co-circulation''
 * 17 Jul 2021, Politico.eu, UK bets on flu and booster vaccine campaign for NHS, Experts warn flu outbreaks could be twice as worse as usual and possibly overlap with a peak in Covid-19 infections.
 * 16 Apr 2014, (fr) CBIP.be, Très faible bénéfice clinique des inhibiteurs de la neuraminidase en cas de grippe, Selon les auteurs de la Cochrane Review, il est à présent clair, sur base de toutes les preuves disponibles provenant d’études randomisées, que le bénéfice clinique de l’oseltamivir et du zanamivir en cas de grippe est très faible et encore plus limité que ce qui avait été suggéré auparavant.