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A child under 4 years old has died of the flu in Monroe County, becoming the first fatality of this year's flu season.

The death, reported in the county's weekly flu surveillance information, happened sometime between Oct. 1 and Oct. 19.

County public health commissioner Michael Mendoza confirmed the death, but said the county cannot share any more information about the child.

Flu season is usually most active from November through April, but this year, doctors said, it's arrived early.

The flu virus is still around, but the numbers are definitely on the decline.

The latest numbers just out from the Monroe County Health Department are for the week ending April 27.  They show 21 deaths so far this flu season, compared to 19 at this time last year.

Most of the deaths involve people 65 and over.

But the other numbers show a lot more activity last year, in what was generally recognized as a bad flu season, compared to his year.

The latest weekly numbers on the flu in Monroe County show an increase in confirmed cases, but the number of new cases continues to decline.

The number of deaths so far this flu season rose by one in the latest weekly figures, up to 17.

The figures are as of April 6, and they show that there have been 5,461 confirmed cases of flu in Monroe County, up about 450 from the previous week. Hospitalizations also rose.

The Monroe County Health Department has released the latest weekly figures on the flu, and while the total number of confirmed cases for the season has risen, there is an encouraging trend.

Health officials say that the number of new cases is trending down. There were 469 new cases in the week ending March 30, compared to 544 new cases in the previous week.

The number of overall flu cases confirmed in Monroe County so far this season is just over 5,000, which is about 1,600 less than this time last year.

Flu cases have dropped from a late-season surge in Monroe County. But the number of hospitalizations for the virus has spiked among the oldest members of the population, and four more people have died, according to the county’s most recent data.

Sixteen people have now died from the flu this season in the county.

Emil Lesho, a health care epidemiologist at Rochester Regional Health, said it’s difficult to tell exactly why the spikes are happening. “I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know if anybody knows what’s going on,” he said.

The number of flu cases confirmed in Monroe County have risen.

The latest on the weekly figures have been released by the county health department.

The number of deaths in Monroe County so far this season rose by one to 11, in the latest figures which are as of March 16

And the number of laboratory confirmed cases of the flu so far this season  jumped more than 600 from the previous week, to nearly 4,000.

The number of flu deaths in Monroe County has increased by one in the latest weekly numbers from the county health department.

There were 10 deaths reported for the current flu season as of March 9.  That compares to 13 at this time last year. All of those deaths involved people 50 or older.

In general, this has been a much less severe season than last year, both locally and nationally.

The latest figures for Monroe County show 3,340 laboratory confirmed cases of the flu this season compared to 5,623 cases at this time last year.

The number of flu cases in Monroe County has begun to taper downward in the latest data available from the county’s public health department.

Nine deaths have been reported from the virus this season, according to those figures. All of them were people over the age of 50.

This time last year, the death toll was 13.

Overall cases of the flu have also decreased from last year, with 2,925 total cases reported in Monroe County this season compared to over 5,000 in the data from this time last year.