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Flu spike, COVID 'double whammy' puts added strain on health system in Queensland regions

Some Queensland regions have recorded flu cases more than 12 times above the average year, putting huge pressure on the regional health system.

ABC News

6 steps to making a COVID plan, before you get sick

With COVID cases, hospital admissions and deaths resurging, every Australian needs to know what they can do to reduce their risk of becoming seriously unwell.

The Conversation

512 fresh COVID cases takes active load to 5051 in State

People flu/ influenza like symptoms urged to visit health centres

The Hindu

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Flu season in NSW has peaked but worst yet to come from new COVID wave, authorities say

The flu season has likely reached its peak in New South Wales, but people are warned the worst is yet to come from a new wave of COVID-19 transmission.

ABC News

New Zealand announces free masks, tests as health system struggles with COVID

The New Zealand government on Thursday announced free masks and rapid antigen tests as it tries to stem the spread of COVID-19 and relieve pressure on the country's health system which is dealing with an influx of COVID and influenza patients.

Reuters

Struggling health systems brace for 5,000 COVID-linked daily hospital admissions amid early flu peak

Some 6,500 health staff are off work in Queensland, NSW and Victoria as Covid and flu place pressure on hospitals

The Guardian - AU

Doctors plead for help as respiratory infections rise in Australia, putting young children at risk

After a COVID-induced lull, respiratory infections are on the rise again. Young children are at risk and doctors are pleading for help to stop transmission.

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An equine flu has killed more than a dozen wild burros in California's Inland Empire

As humans continue to contend with COVID-19, herds of wild burros in Southern California's Inland Empire are facing their own outbreak of a deadly equine influenza that has killed more than a dozen donkeys since June.

Los Angeles Times

Bird flu hits Rathlin Island with dead birds spotted at colony where famous puffins nest

"There have been suspected cases at the seabird colony next to the West Light Seabird Centre.."

Belfast Live

The Mother of Strange Fashion

A woman wears a long thermometer on a hook hanging from her ear, her chin upturned and eyes gently closed, in a photograph taken by the artist Man Ray around 1920, not long after the influenza pandemic of 1918. One hundred years later, another woman hangs on her ear a…

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SA to expand respiratory clinics

South Australia will expand the operations of respiratory clinics across Adelaide as COVID-19 and influenza cases rise.

AAP

Elective surgeries postponed at some Brisbane and Gold Coast hospitals as Queensland COVID-19 cases rise

Queensland's Acting Premier Steven Miles says decisions to suspend operations will be made at a hospital level. There are 714 COVID-19 cases in hospital.

ABC News

Flu surges across the Kimberley after successive years of very low case numbers during COVID-19

Worrorra man Pete O'Connor says he was "definitely the sickest" he'd ever been when he got the flu this season, in a region where about 10 per cent of cases have resulted in hospitalisation.

ABC News

Flu may be back, but COVID is far from over. How do they compare?

Since Australia’s first Omicron wave after borders opened late last year, the pandemic has largely faded from the news and public perception. Gone are the daily briefings with updates on the numbers of cases, hospitalisations and deaths.

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Feeling unwell and not sure if it's COVID-19 or the flu? Here's how and where you can get a multi-virus test

Multi-virus testing is a thing but its availability varies across the county. If you're feeling unwell and want to know exactly what you have, how you go about getting the answer really depends on where you live.

Newcastle Herald

'You feel guilty pressing the button': Hunter mum's fear at hospital strain

For the best part of 24 hours, there were no beds, no cots, and no ventilators available.

The Conversation

New ad urges us to 'take on winter' by getting COVID and flu vaccines. But it misses some key things

The federal government has released a new A$11 million ad campaign urging Australians to “take on winter” by getting COVID boosters and influenza vaccines, as well as promoting COVID vaccination for children.

The Hindu

Cases of viral fever and other respiratory ailments on the rise

With symptoms being similar to COVID-19, people are becoming increasingly confused

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Free flu jab rollout extended in Victoria

Victoria has extended its free influenza vaccine program until July 10, as the state faces its most aggressive flu season since the start of the COVID pandemic.

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Confessions Of A NussyBlasterHolic: These Nasal Douches Have Saved Me This Flu Season

If you've been struck by influenza this winter and suffered the resulting sinusitis , you need to get yourself a nasal rinse stat.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Vaccine disruptions and mistrust are ramping up measles risk

Pandemics have consequences beyond the death and disease directly caused by the novel pathogen. In the 1918 influenza pandemic, more deaths were caused by the pneumococcal bacterium among those made susceptible to bacterial infection by influenza than by the flu itself.

ABC News

Pindarri Poultry farm in Lethbridge fined over 2020 avian influenza control breach

A poultry company is fined over a biosecurity breach that led to thousands of turkeys being euthanased.

The Conversation

Why can you still get influenza if you've had a flu shot?

Restrictions have eased, international borders are open and influenza is back in Australia after a two-year absence.

The Guardian - AU

Testing rates, Covid and the lockdown effect: what’s driving Australia’s big flu season?

Datablog: experts say an increase in testing means high cases have not translated into high hospitalisations

The Independent UK

Birds culled as avian influenza case detected in Sussex

All poultry on the premises have been humanely culled.

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