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DDC warns of rise in influenza cases

People receive a flu shot at the Government Complex on Chaeng Watthana Road. (Bangkok Post file photo)

The number of people infected with seasonal influenza has surpassed 970,000 so far this year, three times more than for the same period last year, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) says.

Among those infected, one has died — a 39-year-old man with a history of alcoholism and liver disease, said Dr Sopon Iamsirithaworn, deputy director-general of the DDC.

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