influenza

But Florida's health department told the Associated Press that in 90 days, it would lift school mandates on vaccines for hepatitis B, chickenpox, Hib influenza and pneumococcal diseases.

Specifically, vaccines for diseases such as hepatitis B, chickenpox, Hib, influenza, and pneumococcal diseases, including meningitis, would no longer be required for school attendance.

Universal vaccines are urgently needed to provide broader protection against ever-changing respiratory viruses, such as influenza, that are major pandemic threats.

In 2023 the most common causes of avoidable death in people with learning disabilities were influenza, pneumonia, cancers of the digestive tract and heart disease.

Among the recorded causes of death were measles, whooping cough, influenza, tuberculosis and bronchitis.