The Larimer County Department of Health and Environment is urging residents to prepare for cold and flu season, with the possibility that Colorado may start to see flu cases earlier than usual, according to a news release from the department.

Trends in other parts of the world show flu cases cropping up earlier than expected — in Japan, the flu arrived five weeks earlier than usual and spread widely with "far more" cases than in recent years, "resulting in over one hundred school closures throughout the country," Communicable Disease and Emergency Preparedness and Response Manager Matt Bauer said in a statement.

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