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The flu season causes approximately 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness and hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide per year.

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Is it true that the flu season causes approximately 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness and hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide per year?

Yes. Multiple authoritative and peer-reviewed sources confirm that seasonal influenza results in millions of cases of severe illness and hundreds of thousands of deaths globally each year.

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Wikipedia: Influenza
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Wikipedia: Influenza. (n.d.). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza

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PLOS (all journals): The effects of weather and mobility on respiratory viruses dynamics before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA and Canada
Directly states that the flu season causes about 3 to 5 million severe cases and hundreds of thousands of deaths.
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PLOS (all journals): The effects of weather and mobility on respiratory viruses dynamics before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA and Canada. (n.d.). PLOS (all journals). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000405

Semantic Scholar peS2o: A spatio-temporal hierarchical Markov switching model for the early detection of influenza outbreaks
Notes influenza causes millions of infections and hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.
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Semantic Scholar peS2o: A spatio-temporal hierarchical Markov switching model for the early detection of influenza outbreaks. (n.d.). Semantic Scholar peS2o. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00477-020-01773-5.pdf

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