Health officer Mark Valacak said that no further information was immediately available about the 1-month-old and 55-year-old from Genesee County who tested positive for influenza.

No cause of death has been determined. Valacak urged the elderly and people handling children younger than 6 months to be vaccinated. He said infants at that age are not eligible for the vaccine.

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Michigan Department of Community Health spokeswoman Kelly Niebel says state officials are currently seeing “quite a bit of flu” throughout the state but vaccine supplies remain readily available.

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