Flu cases increasing, health department urges vaccination

The Montana Department of Health and Human Services said that influenza cases are increasing in the state, and it is urging people who have not yet been vaccinated to take a few minutes to do so.

"Influenza season typically peaks in February and can last as late as May, " Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services Director Anna Whiting Sorrell said in a press release. "We are encouraging people who have not yet been vaccinated to get vaccinated now. "

No cases of the illness had yet been confirmed in Blaine, Chouteau, Hill or Liberty counties as of the last official report, and Hil...