Be careful! Our country will probably be hit by a flu epidemic in the coming weeks. Now that schools have started again, there is a good chance that children will set fire to each other. This is apparent from figures from the website Grotegriepmeter.nl.
The flu measurement on the Internet started in 2003 and 17,000 Dutch people have now joined the website. Currently they are mainly children up to 15 years who suffer from flu-like symptoms. It is expected that they will mainly infect each other at school † For the time being, it seems to be mild forms of the flu (influenza B) and severe colds. There is also a milder variant of the Swine flu virus from 2009 around again.
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Epidemic?
Strikingly enough, fewer flu cases were measured . in the past two weeks than in the weeks before. The Nivel, the Netherlands Institute for Healthcare Research, reports that the number of flu cases is far from eligible for the title epidemic †
New figures from Nivel are expected on Thursday.
