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Five adults and two children aged five and six were victims of this year's flu wave in Greece. Another thirty-three persons were admitted with complications to the emergency department of Sismanoglio hospital in Athens. However, experts say this year's flu wave is less intense than last year’s and there is no cause for concern. Last year at this time, there were two hundred cases with complications. It is unclear whether just the flu caused the deaths of the two children and the five adult victims had longstanding chronic diseases.
     However, doctors warn that the peak of viruses has not yet come and the number of cases of ill people will increase. It is reassuring that the virus strains are known. The dangerous H1N1, for which we have been preparing since 2009, has not been registered in any of the cases examined. The most frequently detected strains are Η3Ν2 and B. The age of the ill people has increased too. While it was forty-two years in 2009, this year it is sixty-two years.