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Expert warns of potential 'significant flu epidemic' later this year

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Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox A scientist has warned of 'potentially quite a significant flu epidemic' later this year.

Professor Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said seasonal flu could be an issue in the autumn and winter as immunity has likely dropped due to Covid measures.

The expert told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Certainly seasonal influenza is likely to be a significant issue coming into the autumn and winter because all the measures we adopted against Covid around the world drove flu to very low levels and as you say, nobody got infected basically with flu last year and so immunity has dropped a

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