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CENTRAL Queensland will have only two weeks notice when a killer flu reaches Australia.

More than 20 children have already died in the United States from the H2N3 strain of the virus.

Rockhampton doctor Joan Chamberlain expects the flu to hit Sydney and the lower regions first, because of the many people coming through the airport.

"This year's flu is going to be different from past years and should hit us around May or June," she said yesterday.

"For the past two years, flu vaccinations have been similar, but this year is different, this flu is unique."

Dr Chamberlain said the flu had started in the Northern Hemisphere and slightly changed as it went around the world.

Emerald woman Di Stanley has been miserable for the past two weeks after catching a dose of the flu but does not know what strain it was.

"I think I'm the victim of an airplane-borne influenza, after my brother came to visit from interstate," she said.

"It started off in my tonsils, then progressed to piercing headaches.

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