ECDC discontinues publishing confirmed case counts (29 September 2009)

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http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/Documents/090929_Influenza_AH1N1_Situation_Report_0900hrs.pdf


ECDC DAILY UPDATE Pandemic (H1N1) 2009
Update 29 September 2009, 09:00 hours CEST

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"ECDC discontinues publishing confirmed case counts."

"ECDC will now stop publishing numbers of confirmed cases reported from EU/EFTA member states or from countries around the world. This is due to the fact that most European countries are now recommending laboratory confirmation only in certain population groups like the risk groups. The World Health Organization has also recommended that countries verify only the first few hundred cases and after that exhaustive sampling is not recommended any more. (...)"

 

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Re: ECDC discontinues publishing confirmed case counts (29 September 2009)

So, progressive blinding...

Daily Update contents
ECDC will now stop publishing numbers of confirmed cases reported from EU/EFTA member states or from countries around the world. This is due to the fact that most European countries are now recommending laboratory confirmation only in certain population groups like the risk groups. The World Health Organization has also recommended that countries verify only the first few hundred cases and after that exhaustive sampling is not recommended any more.
We will continue to monitor the evolution of the pandemic within and outside of Europe with the number of fatal cases by country. This figure is likely to give an overall impression of the evolution of the situation, when interpreted together with the national surveillance reports. However, it must be emphasized that the number of fatal cases per country are likely to be gross underestimates of the true number of fatal cases associated with pandemic influenza. Access to healthcare, the quality of the laboratory network in the country, the quality of the surveillance system and the case definition used for identifying fatal cases all affect these figures and will vary from country to country.
Daily Updates will be produced by 09:00hrs every morning Monday to Friday. No updates will be produced during weekends and the Daily Update published on Monday includes weekend?s information. The production cycle will be reviewed as needed.