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News Scan for Apr 04, 2017
Northern Hemisphere flu ebbing; Kids' global disease burden
Filed Under:
Influenza, General; Public Health
[h=3]Flu continues slow decline in Northern Hemisphere[/h] Flu activity in many Northern Hemisphere nations continues to decline but shows a mixed picture, with falling levels in Canada and the United States and ongoing disease activity in northern Europe, led by H3N2 and influenza B, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in its latest global flu update.
Some parts of the world are seeing the 2009 H1N1 virus as the dominant strain, including Mexico, where flu activity remains high, as well as southern Asia locations such as India, Sri Lanka, and Maldives.
In the Southern Hemisphere, where the season usually runs from roughly May through October, flu is still at interseasonal levels.
Globally, of flu strains tested during the first half of March at national flu labs, 64.4% were positive for influenza A and 35.6% were influenza B. Among subtyped influenza A strains, 84.9% were H3N2 and 15.1% were 2009 H1N1.
Apr 3 WHO global flu update
[h=3]Mortality decreases, global inequality increases in kids, adolescents[/h] The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2015 study, published yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics, showed that while there has been significant global decreases in all-cause child and adolescent mortality from 1990 to 2015, global inequality has increased during the same time period.
To conduct the study, cause-specific mortality and nonfatal health outcomes for children were analyzed from 195 countries, and the countries were grouped in a socio-demographic index. Though mortality decreased from 14.18 million child and adolescent deaths in 1990 to 7.26 million deaths in 2015, poorer countries saw more pediatric deaths, especially from infectious diseases.
The disparity was seen mostly in southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, where more deaths occurred in 2015 than in 1990. In 1990, poor nations had a mortality burden of 61%, but that proportion increased to 75% in 2015.
The infectious diseases that caused the most deaths were lower respiratory tract infections (31.1%), diarrheal diseases (22.4 %), malaria (21%), meningitis (8.7%), and HIV/AIDs (8.1%).
Apr 3 JAMA Pediatr study
News Scan for Apr 04, 2017
Northern Hemisphere flu ebbing; Kids' global disease burden
Filed Under:
Influenza, General; Public Health
[h=3]Flu continues slow decline in Northern Hemisphere[/h] Flu activity in many Northern Hemisphere nations continues to decline but shows a mixed picture, with falling levels in Canada and the United States and ongoing disease activity in northern Europe, led by H3N2 and influenza B, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in its latest global flu update.
Some parts of the world are seeing the 2009 H1N1 virus as the dominant strain, including Mexico, where flu activity remains high, as well as southern Asia locations such as India, Sri Lanka, and Maldives.
In the Southern Hemisphere, where the season usually runs from roughly May through October, flu is still at interseasonal levels.
Globally, of flu strains tested during the first half of March at national flu labs, 64.4% were positive for influenza A and 35.6% were influenza B. Among subtyped influenza A strains, 84.9% were H3N2 and 15.1% were 2009 H1N1.
Apr 3 WHO global flu update
[h=3]Mortality decreases, global inequality increases in kids, adolescents[/h] The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2015 study, published yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics, showed that while there has been significant global decreases in all-cause child and adolescent mortality from 1990 to 2015, global inequality has increased during the same time period.
To conduct the study, cause-specific mortality and nonfatal health outcomes for children were analyzed from 195 countries, and the countries were grouped in a socio-demographic index. Though mortality decreased from 14.18 million child and adolescent deaths in 1990 to 7.26 million deaths in 2015, poorer countries saw more pediatric deaths, especially from infectious diseases.
The disparity was seen mostly in southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, where more deaths occurred in 2015 than in 1990. In 1990, poor nations had a mortality burden of 61%, but that proportion increased to 75% in 2015.
The infectious diseases that caused the most deaths were lower respiratory tract infections (31.1%), diarrheal diseases (22.4 %), malaria (21%), meningitis (8.7%), and HIV/AIDs (8.1%).
Apr 3 JAMA Pediatr study