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Why Australia may be 'woefully unprepared' for flu season
Published Wed, Sep 20, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Melbourne
AUSTRALIA'S carefree attitude toward preventive medicine may have met its match: the flu.
The country is reeling from a potent flu season that has had a historically high number of cases in some states, and the resulting fatalities have raised growing alarms. Last week, an 8-year-old girl from Melbourne died from influenza complications - just weeks after a 30-year-old father passed away after getting the flu.
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