Norwegian FHI asks municipalities to arrange for a powerful flu season

The Norwegian Institute of Public Well being (FHI) asks all municipalities to make sure that flu vaccines are provided to danger teams. This particularly applies to youngsters.

Final 12 months, vaccination protection was at an all-time excessive, apart from one group: youngsters. In accordance with FHI, fewer than one in ten youngsters in at-risk teams have been vaccinated.

“The supply must be strengthened, each regionally and nationally,” notes FHI.

The approaching winter might be very unpredictable in the case of flu, FHI’s Trine Hessevik Paulsen advised ABC Nyheter. The uncertainty considerations each the dimensions of the epidemic and its begin.

“We’ve to be ready that there could also be a stronger flu epidemic this winter,” she mentioned.

“There are nonetheless an uncommon variety of youngsters who’ve by no means encountered the flu virus earlier than,” she identified.

Flu season usually begins in November and peaks round Christmas.

“Final season, the flu epidemic lasted till March; such a late flu outbreak has by no means been recorded earlier than in Norway,” added Hessevik Paulsen.

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