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Spain, ECDC update, Jan 28 2011, 777 patients hospitalized
Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), full PDF document http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publica...e_Overview.pdf
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- Spain:
- Information concerning severe illness due to influenza infection and admitted to hospitals comes from a surveillance system developed during the 2009/2010 pandemic season specifically for this purpose.
- From week 40/2010 to week 03/2011, 777 severe hospitalised confirmed influenza cases have been reported.
- Severely affected cases are mostly in the 15?44 and 45?64 year age groups (30% and 39%, respectively).
- Of the total, 26% were reported to be without any underlying conditions.
- Most of the severe cases and deaths have been associated with A(H1N1)2009 and are in people who have not previously been vaccinated.
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