"Seasonal flu outbreak is expected in Russia in the second half of January", informed the press-service of Federal Service for Monitoring Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor). Taking in account reanimation of flu viruses A and B circulation in several countries of Western Hemisphere, we can assume similar events on the territory of Russia in the second half of January", said the press-service official. In the end of December Rospotrebnadzor already reported children sickness rate growth in Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Vladicaucasus, Izhevsk, Kaliningrad, Ufa, Saratov, Uyzhnosakhalinsk and Irkutsk.