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An equine flu has killed more than a dozen wild burros in California's Inland Empire

As humans continue to contend with COVID-19, herds of wild burros in Southern California's Inland Empire are facing their own outbreak of a deadly equine influenza that has killed more than a dozen donkeys since June.

Los Angeles Times

Bird flu hits Rathlin Island with dead birds spotted at colony where famous puffins nest

"There have been suspected cases at the seabird colony next to the West Light Seabird Centre.."

Belfast Live

The Mother of Strange Fashion

A woman wears a long thermometer on a hook hanging from her ear, her chin upturned and eyes gently closed, in a photograph taken by the artist Man Ray around 1920, not long after the influenza pandemic of 1918. One hundred years later, another woman hangs on her ear a…

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SA to expand respiratory clinics

South Australia will expand the operations of respiratory clinics across Adelaide as COVID-19 and influenza cases rise.

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Elective surgeries postponed at some Brisbane and Gold Coast hospitals as Queensland COVID-19 cases rise

Queensland's Acting Premier Steven Miles says decisions to suspend operations will be made at a hospital level. There are 714 COVID-19 cases in hospital.

ABC News

Flu surges across the Kimberley after successive years of very low case numbers during COVID-19

Worrorra man Pete O'Connor says he was "definitely the sickest" he'd ever been when he got the flu this season, in a region where about 10 per cent of cases have resulted in hospitalisation.

ABC News

Flu may be back, but COVID is far from over. How do they compare?

Since Australia’s first Omicron wave after borders opened late last year, the pandemic has largely faded from the news and public perception. Gone are the daily briefings with updates on the numbers of cases, hospitalisations and deaths.

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Feeling unwell and not sure if it's COVID-19 or the flu? Here's how and where you can get a multi-virus test

Multi-virus testing is a thing but its availability varies across the county. If you're feeling unwell and want to know exactly what you have, how you go about getting the answer really depends on where you live.

ABC News

'You feel guilty pressing the button': Hunter mum's fear at hospital strain

For the best part of 24 hours, there were no beds, no cots, and no ventilators available.

Newcastle Herald

New ad urges us to 'take on winter' by getting COVID and flu vaccines. But it misses some key things

The federal government has released a new A$11 million ad campaign urging Australians to “take on winter” by getting COVID boosters and influenza vaccines, as well as promoting COVID vaccination for children.

The Conversation

Cases of viral fever and other respiratory ailments on the rise

With symptoms being similar to COVID-19, people are becoming increasingly confused

The Hindu

Kolkata: 'Seasonal viruses' strike with Covid-like fever, cough, runny nose

KOLKATA: Not all cough, fever and runny nose are symptoms of Covid-19. Doctors across the city have been receiving a steady stream of patients with various viral infections, along with Covid. Upper respiratory tract infections have made a comeback with the rains starting to set in and doctors blame parainfluenza,…

The Times of India

Free flu jab rollout extended in Victoria

Victoria has extended its free influenza vaccine program until July 10, as the state faces its most aggressive flu season since the start of the COVID pandemic.

AAP

Confessions Of A NussyBlasterHolic: These Nasal Douches Have Saved Me This Flu Season

If you've been struck by influenza this winter and suffered the resulting sinusitis , you need to get yourself a nasal rinse stat.

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Commentary: Vaccine disruptions and mistrust are ramping up measles risk

Pandemics have consequences beyond the death and disease directly caused by the novel pathogen. In the 1918 influenza pandemic, more deaths were caused by the pneumococcal bacterium among those made susceptible to bacterial infection by influenza than by the flu itself.

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Pindarri Poultry farm in Lethbridge fined over 2020 avian influenza control breach

A poultry company is fined over a biosecurity breach that led to thousands of turkeys being euthanased.

The Conversation

Why can you still get influenza if you've had a flu shot?

Restrictions have eased, international borders are open and influenza is back in Australia after a two-year absence.

The Guardian - AU

Testing rates, Covid and the lockdown effect: what’s driving Australia’s big flu season?

Datablog: experts say an increase in testing means high cases have not translated into high hospitalisations

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The Independent UK

Birds culled as avian influenza case detected in Sussex

All poultry on the premises have been humanely culled.

The Canberra Times

Flu or COVID? These experts say taking a RAT test won't tell you

Canberra flu cases in children has increased rapidly in the last month.

ABC News

Victoria Park drive-through COVID testing site will shut as more people access multi-virus tests

South Australia's largest COVID drive-through site will make way for the Adelaide 500 as more vulnerable people will be able to test for different viruses at once.

ABC News

Child dies with COVID as South Australia grapples with surge in influenza cases

A child under the age of three is one of six COVID-related deaths reported in SA today, as the state also grapples with a sharp surge in influenza cases.

The Conversation

Which flu shot should I choose? And what are cell-based and 'adjuvanted' vaccines?

With Australians learning to live with COVID and resuming international travel, cases of influenza are steadily rising.

The Hindu

A ground plan for India’s COVID-19 response

The population-wide application of the pandemic response can be transitioned to be focused on individual protection

Newsroom.co.nz

COVID isn't over, it's just getting started

Endemic Covid-19 could still be expected to kill between five and 10 New Zealanders a day, a toll three to six times greater than that of seasonal influenza.

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