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RALEIGH, N.C. (WLOS) — On Oct. 8, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced the first flu-related death of the 2025-2026 flu season, an adult in western North Carolina. A NCDHHS press release said the adult died due to complications of the flu in the first week of October. No more information will be released to protect …

A case series describes 41 US children with influenza-related acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE) that killed 27% of them—despite receiving multiple treatments and most of them being previously healthy—during the 2023-24 and 2024-25 respiratory virus seasons. For the study, published yesterday in JAMA, the Influenza-Associated Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy Working Group assessed the clinical characteristics, interventions, and outcomes of children with flu-related ANE, …