2026-10-24 from globalnews.ca
Infectious disease experts say Canada’s flu season started about seven weeks earlier than usual this year, but with proper interventions, there is no need to sound the alarm bells just yet.
According to data from Health Canada, 6.1 per cent of tests detected influenza in the week ending Oct. 17.
For the same week in 2025, 0.8 per cent of tests came back positive.
Health Canada defines the epidemic threshold at five per cent, a mark Canada didn’t surpass until mid-November last year.
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