Pharmacists have issued an urgent warning to people to book in for their flu vaccination amid signs the UK could be hit with a high number of cases this winter.
Pharmacies have already been stocking up on seasonal flu jabs after Australia suffered one of its worst seasonal outbreaks in the last five years.
Experts from Well Pharmacy use infection data from the earlier winter in the southern hemisphere when it comes to predicting the severity of a UK outbreak.
They say this winter, particularly in Western Australia, the number of people being diagnosed and hospitalised with flu has passed the five-year average.
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