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With flu season here before you know it, CentraCare Health is offering several chances for you to get a flu shot

I talked with the St. Cloud V.A.'s Judy Welter and Barry Venable on our "Voices For Veterans" segment on WJON. Judy is the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Coordinator at the St. Cloud V.A.

Flu season is in full swing to start 2014. According to the Minnesota Department of health, 144 flu related hospitalizations took place in the state during the first week of the new year.

The Minnesota Department of Health says the flu is now widespread across Minnesota.

Influenza is back in Minnesota.

With flu season around the corner CentraCare Health is reminding everyone to get their flu shot. Cases of the flu become stronger near the end of October when the weather turns cold.

You've probably heard a lot about the flu in the office this season, and rightly so. There have been a couple of high profile deaths already and the number of people hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza is climbing rapidly.

Health officials say more than 900 people have been hospitalized as the national flu outbreak hits hard in Minnesota.

The Minnesota Department of Health says the flu season is entering its peak here in the state. State Epidemiologist Dr. Ruth Lynfield says there have been more reports of flu outbreaks in the last week and it is now considered widespread.

Two more flu deaths have been reported in Minnesota this season. The Minnesota Department of Health reports one person died in the last week of December and another in the second week of January. Their names were not released.