With some 47 states across the U.S. reporting widespread flu outbreaks, the virus has killed 20 children and there are concerns that this number could rise.
Doctors at the Centers for Disease Control describe the flu epidemic as the most intense in recent years and say, it is not too late to get protection from the vaccine.
The deaths of young child include a 6-year-old girl in Maine, a 15-year-old Michigan student and six-foot-four Texas high school senior Max Schwolert, who grew sick in Wisconsin while visiting his grandparents for the holidays, Mail Online reports.
See more children who have died on account of the flu virus here.
