Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control says over a hundred people have died from flu in the country, as the number of people seeking treatment for the virus reaches a 10-year high.
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00:00Over a hundred people have died from flu in Taiwan this flu season, as the number of people
00:06seeking treatment for the virus reached a 10-year high.
00:10Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control, or CDC, says nearly 140,000 people sought medical
00:15attention for the flu last week alone.
00:18Emergency room visits accounted for nearly 13 percent of these.
00:21The CDC expects the outbreak to peak around Lunar New Year later this month, and urges
00:25everyone, including healthy individuals, to get vaccinated, citing the recent death
00:30of an unvaccinated teenager.