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'It was just as the school holidays began that Emma Hampton's daughter started
feeling unwell.
By the next day she was unable to get eight-year-old Georgie out of bed, and
for three days she ran a temperature of 39 degrees Celsius.
Emma's other daughter also caught the flu, and in both girls the infection went
to their lungs, leaving them coughing for two weeks.
When their dad caught it, his infection was even worse, causing sharp body
pains for more than a week.
Emma said she had never seen her husband so unwell.
"It was no regular cold. It hit hard," she said.
Their experience is being felt around the country as flu season takes hold.
By early July there had been almost 150,000 cases of influenza notified to
regulators in the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, with 32,000
notifications in the most recent fortnight — suggesting cases are peaking.
The numbers are on par with previous years but this year the flu is affecting
young people and children the most.'
Via Muse.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
