Flu outbreak claims 84 lives in Australia?s Queensland state

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Source: https://www.thenewstribe.com/2019/06...ensland-state/

Flu outbreak claims 38 lives in Australia?s Queensland state
by Web DeskJune 21, 2019

PERTH: Outbreak of flu in Australia?s Queensland state has so far claimed 38 lives despite vigorous vaccinations.

The state is in the grip of a flu outbreak. So far more than one million vaccinations have been deployed, yet confirmed cases of influenza have risen above 16,500. The numbers of confirmed cases are four times high than the five-year average.

At least 38 people have died from complications directly related to the disease, the youngest being a 20-year-old patient.

Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said while the flu season appears to have arrived early in Australia. She added that the spread in Queensland appears to be faster...

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Influenza deaths: Queensland toll surges to 66

Flu killed 66 people in Queensland in the first half of 2019 - that's 65 per cent more deaths than in the whole of 2018.
A record 28,896 laboratory-confirmed cases of the flu have been diagnosed across the state since the start of the year.
That figure is more than three times higher than the record flu season of 2017.
Queensland Health Minister Steven Miles said the 2019 rates were also five times higher than the average number of influenza cases across the state over the past five years.
"Too many Queenslanders are already dead, the season is yet to peak so we have to do more," Miles said on Wednesday.

https://7news.com.au/news/public-health/influenza-deaths-queensland-toll-surges-to-66-c-362945

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Mum of three dies unexpectedly after coming down with the flu

Friends and family of a Queensland woman have been left devastated after she died just weeks after getting the flu.
Mum of three Jacinta Foulds contracted the flu two weeks ago and became so sick she caught a secondary infection and pneumonia.
Her husband, Daniel Foulds, said this became too much for her body to handle but she ?fought hard all the way to the end?.
Ms Foulds, who was in her 30s, passed away in this early hours of this morning.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/mum-of-three-dies-unexpectedly-after-coming-down-with-the-flu/news-story/fc7546f9796a9e8fcd03a7c15150aff0