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Is COVID losing its fangs and becoming more like the flu?

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Today’s hyper-transmissible strain of the COVID-19 virus has sent cases soaring across the country. But rising deaths — the grim marker of earlier dangerous surges — haven’t kept pace, and the average risk of dying from an infection is dropping to levels almost as low as…

Tribune News Service

Calls to ban gamebird release to avoid ‘catastrophic’ avian flu outbreak

RSPB warns of risk to UK wild bird population this winter from 1 October release of captive-bred birds

The Guardian - UK

Govt to lower Covid to same disease category as influenza

Thailand will downgrade Covid-19 from a “dangerous” communicable disease to one that “needs monitoring” starting from October, as the country’s virus situation has started to stabilise, according to the Ministry of Public Health.

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Mumbai: Rise in swine flu cases sees demand to cut lab test rates

MUMBAI: With the demand for influenza H1N1 tests rising, there is also a growing clamour to regulate the test prices. A single test of H1N1 (formerly called swine flu) costs between Rs 4,000-Rs 5,000 in the city, putting an enormous burden on families where more than one person has to…

The Times of India

This year’s flu season was bad, but appears to have passed its peak

The number of influenza notifications continues to sit above the five-year average, but cases peaked in early June and have dropped away at a fast rate.

The New Daily

Fears of oncoming huge spike in flu cases - and a return of flurona

Pharmacists are urging people to book a vaccine now as they have seen a 160% increase in requests

Wales Online

Worse than COVID? Medical experts weigh in on NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet's 'more severe' flu claim

Hospitalisation figures for COVID-19 and the flu might be vastly different, but making an assessment on which virus is worse is complicated, experts say.

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Winter spread: COVID and influenza still rife

Hunter New England has recorded in excess of 300,100 COVID-19 cases to date this year, with more than 9200 new cases last week.

Newcastle Herald

With COVID and influenza on the rise, how worried should pregnant women be?

COVID cases are on the rise and influenza is back with a vengeance, so how worried should pregnant women be about contracting "flurona"?

ABC News

Flu spike, COVID 'double whammy' puts added strain on health system in Queensland regions

Some Queensland regions have recorded flu cases more than 12 times above the average year, putting huge pressure on the regional health system.

ABC News

6 steps to making a COVID plan, before you get sick

With COVID cases, hospital admissions and deaths resurging, every Australian needs to know what they can do to reduce their risk of becoming seriously unwell.

The Conversation

512 fresh COVID cases takes active load to 5051 in State

People flu/ influenza like symptoms urged to visit health centres

The Hindu

Flu season in NSW has peaked but worst yet to come from new COVID wave, authorities say

The flu season has likely reached its peak in New South Wales, but people are warned the worst is yet to come from a new wave of COVID-19 transmission.

ABC News

New Zealand announces free masks, tests as health system struggles with COVID

The New Zealand government on Thursday announced free masks and rapid antigen tests as it tries to stem the spread of COVID-19 and relieve pressure on the country's health system which is dealing with an influx of COVID and influenza patients.

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The Guardian - AU

Struggling health systems brace for 5,000 COVID-linked daily hospital admissions amid early flu peak

Some 6,500 health staff are off work in Queensland, NSW and Victoria as Covid and flu place pressure on hospitals

ABC News

Doctors plead for help as respiratory infections rise in Australia, putting young children at risk

After a COVID-induced lull, respiratory infections are on the rise again. Young children are at risk and doctors are pleading for help to stop transmission.

Los Angeles Times

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.

Belfast Live

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.."

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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.

ABC News

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.

The Conversation

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.

ABC News

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.

Newcastle Herald

'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.

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