Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC, responds to former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx’s warning that US agencies “are making the same mistakes they made with Covid.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported double the cases of norovirus compared to previous years in early December.

The CDC reported more than double the cases of norovirus, commonly known as stomach flu, compared to previous years in early December.

According to the latest CDC data, there were 91 outbreaks of norovirus reported during the week of Dec. 5. During the last week of November, there were 69 outbreaks, The Associated Press reported. In Minnesota, more than 40 outbreaks were reported in December, according to that state’s Department of Health.

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It’s been increasing at a pretty steady pace now for the past several weeks. So yeah, we are certainly in flu season now.”

The CDC's analysis revealed changes in the hemagglutinin (HA) gene, a critical component for the virus's ability to attach to host cells. The mutations "were not found in virus sequences from poultry samples collected on the patient's property, suggesting the changes emerged in the patient after infection," the CDC stated in its December 26 update.

A genetic analysis of viral samples from a patient in Louisiana hospitalized with the first severe case of bird flu showed mutations that may result in the virus becoming more transmissible

Whooping cough cases are nearly five times higher than cases reported in 2023, with the CDC urging people to get vaccinated.