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The rate of flu hospitalization in Canada has nearly doubled compared to the previous week of available data, with infections now up almost 30 per cent, Health Canada data shows.

It's flu season in Canada, and as the number of infections and hospitalizations start to rise, medical experts are urging Canadians to get their flu shots.

The city of Calgary and surrounding area have become one of several hot spots for flu outbreaks across the country in recent weeks according to Health Canada.

Health Minister Sylvia Jones said she believed flu cases had already peaked for the season, accepting they had strained the province's health-care system.

'This decision protects children, respects families, and rebuilds trust in public health,' Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a statement.

Flu season has arrived early, with CHEO reporting eight times more cases than last year as hospitals warn of rising infections among children and seniors.

An influenza infection brings with it an increased risk of heart attack and stroke, data published in the Journal of the American Heart Association says.  

Dr. Deborah Money, senior author of the paper published Monday in JAMA, said having such a large study "robustly" confirms the benefit of COVID-19 vaccination for pregnant women.

In the first week of December, there was a 70 per cent jump in the number of lab-confirmed influenza cases in Alberta, along with 300 more hospitalizations and six more deaths.

While the flu vaccine can reduce the risk of falling ill, one expert says it's most effective at making infections that do occur milder and preventing hospitalization. 

B.C.'s deputy provincial health officer, Martin Lavoie, said there are 'quite a number' of viruses and bacteria circulating in communities at this time.

During the week of Christmas, Health Canada said the percentage of positive tests for influenza reached a three-year high of 33.3 per cent.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said around one in three (32.9 per cent) of influenza tests came back positive for the week ending Dec. 27, 2025.

In the week ending Dec. 20, one in four (25.6 per cent) of every influenza test conducted in the U.S. came back positive, the U.S. CDC said.

For the week ending Dec. 13, Canada saw 11,646 new cases of the flu being detected, which means 27.7 per cent of all the tests conducted in the country came out positive.

The province is asking Quebecers who are sick to contact the 811 health hotline to seek advice before heading to the emergency room.

The Alberta SPCA says a dog that tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza has died, making it the second confirmed fatal case of bird flu in a dog in Canada.

Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent, was a 37-year-old mother of three who had recently moved to Minnesota.

Your future sick self will thank you.

The suspect was apprehended shortly after midnight by Secret Service agents assigned to the U.S. vice-president's home, east of downtown Cincinnati, Ohio.