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US influenza statistics by flu season. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention page called "Disease Burden of Flu": "Each year CDC estimates the burden of influenza in the U.S. CDC uses modeling to estimate the number of flu illnesses, medical visits, hospitalizations, and deaths related to flu that occurred in a given season.
The Asian Flu was a pandemic outbreak of H2N2 avian influenza that originated in China in 1957, spread worldwide that same year during which an influenza vaccine was developed, lasted until 1958 and caused between one and four million deaths.
Weekly numbers show that 2% of U.S. deaths for week 5 were due to the flu. COVID was responsible for 1.5% of deaths in the nation, the numbers show.
The estimates of the total death toll due to Hong Kong flu (from its beginning in July 1968 until the outbreak faded during the winter of 1969–70 [187]) vary: The World Health Organization and Encyclopaedia Britannica estimated the number of deaths due to Hong Kong flu to be between 1 and 4 million globally. [1] [28]
The 2024-2025 flu shot protects against three strains — H3N2, H1N1 and a flu B strain — but uptake has been very poor this season, Dr. David Warren, chief of the division of infectious disease ...
These outbreaks probably lessened the significance of the influenza pandemic for the public. [322] In some areas, the flu was not reported on, the only mention being that of advertisements for medicines claiming to cure it. [323] Additionally, the outbreak coincided with the deaths and media focus on the First World War. [324]
[9] [10] Only two of those deaths were babies under six months old. [11] The 2017–2018 flu season was severe for all US populations and resulted in an estimated 41 million cases, 710,000 hospitalizations and 52,000 deaths. This is the highest number of illnesses since the 2009 flu season, when there were an estimated 60 million cases. [6]
Epidemics and pandemics with at least 1 million deaths Rank Epidemics/pandemics Disease Death toll Percentage of population lost Years Location 1 1918 Flu: Influenza A/H1N1: 17–100 million 1–5.4% of global population [4] 1918–1920 Worldwide 2 Plague of Justinian: Bubonic plague 15–100 million 25–60% of European population [5] 541–549