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Experts predict a hard-hitting flu season

Patrick Sison

<p>This Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015 photo shows single dosage syringes of the Fluarix quadrivalent influenza virus vaccine in New York. There's not much flu going around in the United States so far _ unlike the last three seasons when doctors' offices were filled with patients before Christmas and the worst hit by late December. The government's latest flu tracking data was released Friday, Dec. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)</p>

Experts predict a hard-hitting flu season

Posted at 7:28 AM, Sep 04, 2017

and last updated 2017-09-04 10:28:09-04

Experts are predicting a bad flu season as we get closer to the end of summer.

Australia currently has more than twice the number of flu cases compared to what it had last year, and nearly twice as many deaths.

Experts say our flu season in the Northern Hemisphere is almost always similar to that of the Southern Hemisphere.

So far, Australia says its flu shot matches the strains going around, so experts hope this year's shot here in the United States is effective.

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Experts predict a hard-hitting flu season

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