Jan 11 (AFP - NT) - Influenza has killed 27 people in Hungary since the beginning of this year, health officials said here Wednesday. The epidemic broke out late last year and caused complications to about seven percent of a total of some 60,000 patients nationwide, which is double the usual ratio of complications normally occurring with the customary winter flu, physician Ilona Staub of the central public health institute said. The 27 victims included months-old babies as well as middle-aged and elderly people, all of whom suffered further serious or chronic diseases. est/msa AFP /AA1234/101235 GMT JAN 96

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