Health authorities are warning Australians to make sure they get the flu jab this year following a spike in cases, with more than 20,000 notifications already reported for 2019.
New figures show almost one in 10 people hospitalised with the infection in 2018 were admitted to intensive care.
She said one in four people mistakenly believed they didn’t need a flu shot because the virus wouldn’t strike them.Queensland hospitals have been at capacity across the last year thanks to a “tsunami of admissions” never before seen in the state at this time of year. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk blamed the federal government, summer weather and the flu for the patient spike.Flu activity has been “elevated” across NSW, with respiratory presentations to emergency departments above the average for this time of year.
In the past few years NSW has had increasing flu case in January and February thought to be from travellers returning from northern hemisphere with the illness.
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