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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rebecca Thomas

Top doctor issues stark warning about risks of mutant flu strain for children as hospital admissions surge

One of the UK’s most senior paediatric doctors has issued a stark warning about the risks of the new “super flu” to children.

Hospitals across the country are seeing a rise in children attending A&E with flu, The Independent has been told, as some schools have been forced to shut to prevent the spread of a new mutant strain of the winter bug.

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