Girl dies of flu-related complications amid peak season

Seven influenza-related deaths were reported in Taiwan last week, including a seven-year-old girl who died of severe complications two weeks after developing flu symptoms, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Tuesday. The girl was diagnosed as infected with the A-type flu virus H3N2, said CDC quarantine physician Lin Yung-ching. Lin said the young girl received a flu vaccine injection in late December, before traveling with a tour group to Hokkaido, Japan in mid-January.