CDC Health Alert Network Health Advisory: Variant Influenza Virus Infections

The CDC last week issued a Health Alert Network Health Advisory to provide updates on recent variant influenza virus infections and summarize CDC’s recommendations for identification, treatment, and prevention of variant influenza virus infection for the summer and fall of 2022. Five cases of human infection with influenza viruses that usually spread only in pigs, also known as variant influenza virus infections, were reported to CDC in August 2022. Early identification and investigation of variant influenza virus infections are important to determine whether the virus is spreading efficiently among people. Persons who are at higher risk for influenza complications should avoid exposure to pigs and swine barns at fairs this year. Read more from the CDC here.