Man holding nose during sneeze
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Flu cases are rising in Canada with medical experts bracing for a difficult influenza season. The global spread of the H3N2 strain in addition to the H1N1 strain – may affect this year’s flu vaccine’s efficacy.

Members of the media may directly contact:

Giorgia Sulis (English only)

Assistant Professor, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, and Canada Research Chair in Communicable Disease Epidemiology.

gsulis@uottawa.ca (not available for live radio/TV interviews)

Dr. Sulis' expertise includes infectious disease epidemiology, population health and vaccines.

Earl Brown (English only)

Emeritus Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine.

ebrown@uOttawa.ca

Dr. Brown's expertise relates to virology, infectious diseases, respiratory viruses, RNA viruses, microbiology.

Hugues Loemba(French only)

Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, and Clinician-researcher, family doctor and virologist at Institut Savoir Montfort.

huguesloemba@montfort.on.ca

Dr. Loemba is a clinician-researcher, family doctor and virologist who can discuss public-health related themes around the current flu season.