Flu season at its peak health officials warn

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Paphos Life
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Flu season at its peak health officials warn

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Health authorities on Monday urged the public to take precautions as the flu season is now at its peak.The flu season started the last two weeks of December, some two weeks earlier than usual, and has spread rapidly.According to the Head of the Infectious Disease Surveillance Unit of the health ministry, Maria Koliou, the most common flu this year is virus type A....

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..... and it is a nasty one !.
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I did see on UK tv in the last few days that the current flu injection in the UK, can't speak for Cyprus, covered all the well known flu viruses, along with sone rogue viruses from Eastern Europe which had just come to light too.
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So hopefully it won’t spread to Cyprus! I had my ( free) flu jab back in mid October at the General. Then this jab was on offer to all pensioners and vulnerable people.

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