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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Bageshri Savyasachi

GPs warn vaccine fatigue could be behind flu season arriving early

"Complacency" and less people being vaccinated against influenza could be one of the reasons flu season is early this year, a general practitioner has said.

The number of flu patients Dr Niral Shah, at My GP Gungahlin, has treated in the last week has been higher than usual for this time of year. He said patients normally came to him with flu-like symptoms from May but that had changed to April this year.

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