A weekly bulletin released by the
Higher Health Institute (ISS) said Thursday that 39 people have
died since October in Italy because of influenza.
The FluNews-Italia bulletin said there have been 191 serious
cases in which people were admitted to intensive-care
departments because of the flu so far this season.
It said most of the people who died were 50 or over and 84%
had not had the flu vaccine.
The bulletin said that last week 725,000 people in Italy were
laid up with flu for a total of 3.6 million since the start of
the season.
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