Children with severe pneumonia should be tested for staphylococcus, doctors say. More children who die from the flu have staphylococcus aureus infections that hasten their deaths, according to an alert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC is requesting that states report all cases of flu-related pediatric deaths from the past winter.

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