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Queensland Flu season gives us the cold shoulder…

Posted onSeptember 21, 2017October 27, 20172 Comments

The latest Flu data, fresh from the excellent Epidemiology Research Unit, Communicable Diseases Branch, Queensland Health, shows the usual post-winter spike (shoulder) in Flu cases and the subsequent plunge thanks to a week of fewer Read More …

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsepidemiology, Flu, FluA, H3N2, influenza, Queensland

Flu is bad…in many ways…

Posted onSeptember 20, 2017October 15, 2017Leave a comment

A Mum  gives birth to a baby but she is too ill with influenza to know it.[1] As we read another tragic story of the severe impact from disease (in some cases, death) related to Read More …

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsAustralia, epidemiology, flu season, H3N2, influenza virus, mutation, Queensland, reporting

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