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We've had snow, hail and vicious southerlies this winter - but flu is thin on the ground.
Data collected from general practices shows that the number of people turning up to their doctor with flu-like illness has barely risen since May.
Rates in the Capital & Coast District Health Board area have been particularly low.
Normally, flu rates rise from May, dramatically spiking sometime between July and August before dropping off again as spring arrives.
Rates last week were just one- sixth of what they were at the height of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
"We're below the baseline at the moment and that's fantastic," Wellington medical officer of health Annette Nesdale said.
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Data collected from general practices shows that the number of people turning up to their doctor with flu-like illness has barely risen since May.
Rates in the Capital & Coast District Health Board area have been particularly low.
Normally, flu rates rise from May, dramatically spiking sometime between July and August before dropping off again as spring arrives.
Rates last week were just one- sixth of what they were at the height of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
"We're below the baseline at the moment and that's fantastic," Wellington medical officer of health Annette Nesdale said.
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