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2025-11-08
A paediatrician warned on Saturday that the summer flu season could persist in the coming weeks until December, urging the public, especially young children, to get vaccinated as quickly as possible to deal with a rather “unusual” outbreak.
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Professor Patrick Ip from the University of Hong Kong’s department of paediatrics said the city is facing a much more severe summertime influenza outbreak than in previous years.
“We are facing more [severe] outbreaks as well as more severe complications partly because of insufficient influenza vaccination coverage this year,” he said.
“So we are hoping that our students, the elderly, as well as the general public can receive the influenza vaccination this year as early as possible in order to boost their immunity coverage and also to be in a much safer condition to face the coming seasonal outbreak of influenza in the wintertime.”
He said it was even more critical to get vaccinated this year as the summer and winter flu outbreaks are expected to overlap.
... https://gbcode.rthk.hk/TuniS/news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1830705-20251108.htm
A paediatrician warned on Saturday that the summer flu season could persist in the coming weeks until December, urging the public, especially young children, to get vaccinated as quickly as possible to deal with a rather “unusual” outbreak.
-snip-
Professor Patrick Ip from the University of Hong Kong’s department of paediatrics said the city is facing a much more severe summertime influenza outbreak than in previous years.
“We are facing more [severe] outbreaks as well as more severe complications partly because of insufficient influenza vaccination coverage this year,” he said.
“So we are hoping that our students, the elderly, as well as the general public can receive the influenza vaccination this year as early as possible in order to boost their immunity coverage and also to be in a much safer condition to face the coming seasonal outbreak of influenza in the wintertime.”
He said it was even more critical to get vaccinated this year as the summer and winter flu outbreaks are expected to overlap.
... https://gbcode.rthk.hk/TuniS/news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1830705-20251108.htm