Newark Public Safety Director Fritz Fragé said the mom brought the 2-year-old boy to the city's 4th precinct station around 7:25 p.m. looking for help.
David Cennimo, associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, said the flu season was absent last year because of all the measures that were being taken against COVID-19.
Described by the CDC as an "emerging fungus that presents a serious global threat," a multidrug-resistant illness has affected at least 141 people in the Garden State.