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Alberta has reported 0 cases of influenza so far this season
released by Alberta Health Services Thursday showed there have been zero lab-confirmed cases of influenza and no hospitalizations yet this season.Dr. Grace Salvo, a medical officer of health with Alberta Health Services, said the data doesn’t necessarily mean there is no influenza circulating in Alberta, it means that it hasn’t yet been detected.She stressed that every season, the flu comes at different times, “so it’s only a matter of time before we start seeing it in our population.”“Every year, the influenza changes a little bit and that’s why every year people need to get re-vaccinated.