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Victoria's deadly flu season has claimed the life of an eight-year-old girl and people have been warned not to dismiss symptoms as "simply a cold". The child, who has not been publicly identified, died at Angliss Hospital in Upper Ferntree Gully in Melbourne's outer-east on Friday, a health department spokesperson said.
Her death follows that of young father Ben Ihlow on Father's Day.
The deadly strain of flu has killed 94 people in Victorian aged-care facilities so far this year.
"We are having a horrific flu season," Health Minister Jill Hennessy told 3AW radio.
"This is an influenza strain that is able to impact the young, the elderly, the well and the unwell."
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/girl-8-dies-of-flu-in-melbourne-hospital/ar-AAs6a2l
Her death follows that of young father Ben Ihlow on Father's Day.
The deadly strain of flu has killed 94 people in Victorian aged-care facilities so far this year.
"We are having a horrific flu season," Health Minister Jill Hennessy told 3AW radio.
"This is an influenza strain that is able to impact the young, the elderly, the well and the unwell."
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/girl-8-dies-of-flu-in-melbourne-hospital/ar-AAs6a2l