Doctors braced for winter flu outbreak amid fears over vaccine

Numbers could match Australia’s record of 72 deaths and 170,000 cases

Doctors in Britain are bracing themselves for an outbreak of flu in the next few weeks that could match Australia’s recent epidemic – one of the worst for a decade.

At least 170,000 cases were confirmed at the end of the Australian winter, more than twice as many as in 2016. Federal health officials say they logged 72 flu-related deaths among this year’s total.

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