The flu comes around every year, everywhere - and children are among some of the most vulnerable. We asked children around the world to illustrate this Spotlight. The drawings are by children aged 5-15 years from Australia, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, El Salvador, France, Latvia, Switzerland and Tajikistan.
Influenza: are we ready?
When 100 passengers on a flight from Dubai to New York in September 2018 fell ill with respiratory symptoms, health officials were concerned that they might be carrying a serious respiratory illness called MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) and quarantined the plane until further health checks could be completed. Testing showed that several were positive for the influenza virus, which can be easily spread when people are in close contact or in contained spaces such as airports and planes for several hours./.../
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