France - Flu epidemic: record excess mortality estimated at more than 11,400 deaths

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Flu: peak of the epidemic "crossed" more deaths expected

by Elise Del?ve Monday, February 23, 2015 8:04 p.m.

Marisol Touraine said on Monday that the epidemic peak flu has been "crossed" with 2.5 million people infected, and as many to come. A total of five million people. The Health Minister said that the epidemic would produce more victims than the previous ones.

"We have crossed the epidemic peak" of the flu ad Marisol Touraine, Minister of Health. The epidemic declined in the PACA region and Ile-de-France, which "does not mean it disappears," said the minister. The peak of 2.5 million patients was reached and the Minister warned that 2.5 other people should be infected by the end of the epidemic. "More severe than in previous years (...) the flu in 2015 will therefore concern on arrival between 4.5 to 5 million people without doubt."

According to the minister, "there are more cases of complications than in previous years." There was, in recent weeks, "about 6,000 visits to the emergency and about half resulted in hospitalization." Of these, some are severe, "we should observe an increase in the number of people who die from the flu," said Marisol Touraine.

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8,500 Additional deaths this winter from flu

The strong epidemic of influenza, currently in decline, has contributed to a marked increase in mortality this winter, evaluated at this stage to 8,500 additional deaths all causes by the Institute for public health surveillance (Invs). This excess mortality, which substantially affects the more than 65 years, has also been observed in a dozen European countries, which, in addition to France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands . It is evaluated to 60,000 deaths all causes combined, according to the Institute. In France, 'since the beginning of the epidemic of influenza (mid-January), the winter mortality is greater than 19% in the winter mortality expected, calculated from the previous eight years, either an excess estimated at 8,500 deaths', indicates the Invs.

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The end is near

Published: Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 1:23 p.m.
Last Updated: Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 1:29 p.m.

Flu epidemic: a record excess mortality estimated at more than 11,400 deaths
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As the end of the epidemic is expected to occur "this week or next week," according to the InVS, the time has come to take and the first interim balance sheets. One thing is certain: the flu hit very hard this year, with nearly 3 million cases. Worse, winter mortality has so far been 19% higher than expected, calculated from the previous eight years.

InVS announcement "estimated 11,400 excess deaths" since the epidemic began in mid-January 2015. A well above those seen during the winters 2008-2009 and 2012-2013 already particularly deadly. It is even the record since the mid-2000s, when the Institute began making such estimates.

Another indicator highlighting the seriousness of the epidemic influenza 2015, the number of cases requiring hospitalization in intensive care. A total of 1,411 people have been admitted to the ICU for influenza-like illness since last November and 186 have died. Again, it is a sad record, exceeding the influenza A / H1N1 pandemic in 2009-2010.
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