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Deadly illnesses are hitting even those young and healthy like quentin thomas, a 27-year-old father of three who died last week after his family says he contracted flu a and b at the same time. your son was otherwise a very healthy young man, right? he was a healthy, hard-working young man. i mean, it s just hard to believe. too fast, too sudden. reporter: his distraught father robert telling us quentin was unvaccinated. are you going to go get vaccinated now? yeah, i probably am. definitely am. i got grandbabies around that i love, and they ain t got a father. reporter: vaccine remains the best defense according to doctors. they really are the optimal way and the sort of foundation of all of the efforts that we recommend to prevent the transmission of flu and covid. at 70 we tend to determine how bad we are by the number on that thermometer. what are you hearing about the thinking on ....
If it seems like everyone you know has been sick lately, it may have a lot to do with the rise in both flu and covid cases this season. stephanie gosk now on the major concerns among doctors. reporter: flu season is raging, fever, aches and runny noses, especially in the south. we had a very early start to our flu season. reporter: dr. andy shane is the head of infectious diseases at children s health care of atlanta where cases of covid and both flu a and flu b are up. she says the flu vaccine appears to be working this year. the problem is, people aren t getting the shot. vaccination rates are much lower this year. uptake of vaccination has been less. reporter: the cdc says numbers of outpatient flu cases decreased last week but they have remained higher than expected since november. altogether this flu season there have been 14 million cases and nearly 10,000 deaths. numbers back to prepandemic levels. ....
First for the biden administration. there is alarming news tonight about the flu in america. the cd says the number of children who died from the flu nearly doubled last week. 40 kids have been killed so far this season. in tonight s health watch, cbs s omar villafranca reports on the surge of cases in dallas. this is the first time i have known the flu to be horrible. reporter: mary stein enter 3-year-old son james have spent the last few nights in a dallas hospital. his cough got so strong and so hard, we have been here since wednesday night. diagnosed with flu a. and then that turned into right side and ammonia. reporter: coughing kids have kept dr. stephanie atia with dallas medical city children saw a hospital busy for months. we are seeing more flu this year than we did last year or the year before. reporter: nationally the number of flu cases has decreased but in southern states, flu activity is still high, including in ....
Dallas county, where almost 20% of tests are positive. one thing that is a little unusual this flu season is that we are seeing both flu a and flu b, more or less at the same time. lower vaccination rates could be to blame. less than half of adults and children have gotten the latest flu vaccine, the lowest in five years. i think they definitely are some vexing fatigue out there from the last couple of years. he sounds pretty good. reporter: stein says she missed getting her son s flu shot this year and urges parents to take the flu seriously. i would definitely go with your gut, listen to your instincts, and either get the flu shot or be very proactive in your treatments. reporter: doctors say it is still not too late to get the flu shot. and they also say if you re sick, don t go to work. if your kids are sick, don t send them to school. stay home. could help stop the spread. norah? norah: we know the flu is deadly. all right, omar villafranca, thank you so much. ....
Accuracy of 90%. the dogs missed 18 infections. the researchers say that the dogs do not necessarily replace nasal swab testing. instead, they can help indicate which person might need a test and which person doesn t. that could help save on time and resources. the researchers think the dogs could be trained to detect other types of diseases too. here s carol edwards, executive director of the nonprofit early alert canines. she works with the dogs. we talked about tb. we talked about flu a and b possibly for this next flu season, seeing if we can get the dogs to alert on that. it s just a matter of figuring out how to collect samples, how to train the dogs and to be safe and effective around those diseases too. the researchers say they re already exploring how dogs could be used in nursing homes too, especially if there s an ....