Despite a protracted season of summer-like heat, cooler temperatures have finally arrived and with them, flu season.

Officially, flu season in Hays County began Oct. 1, and already, more than a dozen people have tested positive, according to the county’s epidemiologist Eric Schneider.

“We’ve had 14 to 16 positive cases in the past two weeks,” Schneider said, adding that “it’s not really anything out of the ordinary for this time of year.

Schneider and Lara Anton ...