An Oxford University expert has explained everything you need to know about the A/H3N2 superflu strain now sweeping across the UK

An expert has explained why so many children are falling ill with the superflu that is hospitalising thousands of people in the UK. James Hay at the University of Oxford has laid out exactly how dangerous, and unusual, this year's outbreak really is - and what steps everyone needs to take.

Professor Meghana Pandit, NHS national medical director, said the 'unprecedented wave of super flu is leaving the NHS facing a worst-case scenario', but Hay, Research Fellow in Infectious Diseases Modelling, says both the spread of the virus and the severity of illness 'remain within what experts consider normal for a flu season'.

He said the subtype of flu that is domina

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