AUSTRALIA should prepare for a severe flu season, experts have warned, as influenza cases spike across the US.
There have already been 1,055 confirmed influenza cases in Australia during the first week of 2025, data from National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System shows.
"The Northern Hemisphere is generally a fairly good indicator of what we can expect," Andrew Bartlett, a lecturer in pharmacy practice at the University of Sydney, told SBS News.
"It gives us an idea of...the amount of virus circulating, as well as the dominant strains."
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates there have been at least 63,000 hospitalisations and 2,700 flu-related deaths so far this season in the US.
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