Giuseppe
Emeritus
The second wave of 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) in New Zealand, January?October 2010 (Euro Surveill., abstract, edited)
[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: <cite cite="http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19788">Eurosurveillance - View Article</cite>. Abstract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 6, 10 February 2011
Surveillance and outbreak reports
The second wave of 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) in New Zealand, January?October 2010
D Bandaranayake 1, M Jacobs 2, M Baker 3, D Hunt 2, T Wood 1, A Bissielo 1, M Macfarlane 2, L Lopez 1, G Mackereth 1, Q S Huang 1
1. Institute of Environmental Science and Research, National Centre for Biosecurity and Infectious Disease, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
2. Ministry of Health, Wellington, New Zealand
3. Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand
Citation style for this article: Bandaranayake D, Jacobs M, Baker M, Hunt D, Wood T, Bissielo A, Macfarlane M, Lopez L, Mackereth G, Huang QS. The second wave of 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) in New Zealand, January?October 2010. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(6)
ii=19788. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19788
Date of submission: 12 November 2010
This paper uses data from multiple surveillance systems to describe the experience in New Zealand with the second complete wave of pandemic influenza A(H1N1)2009 in 2010. Measures such as hospitalisation rates suggest the overall impact of influenza A(H1N1)2009 in 2010 was between half and two thirds that of the first wave in 2009. There was considerable regional and sub-regional variation with a tendency for higher activity in areas that experienced low rates in 2009. Demographic characteristics of the second wave were similar to those in 2009 with highest rates seen in children under the age of five years, and in indigenous Māori and Pacific peoples. Hospital services including intensive care units were not under as much pressure as in 2009. Immunisation appears to have contributed to the reduced impact of the pandemic in 2010, particularly for those aged 60 years and older.
-
-----
[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: <cite cite="http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19788">Eurosurveillance - View Article</cite>. Abstract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 6, 10 February 2011
Surveillance and outbreak reports
The second wave of 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) in New Zealand, January?October 2010
D Bandaranayake 1, M Jacobs 2, M Baker 3, D Hunt 2, T Wood 1, A Bissielo 1, M Macfarlane 2, L Lopez 1, G Mackereth 1, Q S Huang 1
1. Institute of Environmental Science and Research, National Centre for Biosecurity and Infectious Disease, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
2. Ministry of Health, Wellington, New Zealand
3. Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand
Citation style for this article: Bandaranayake D, Jacobs M, Baker M, Hunt D, Wood T, Bissielo A, Macfarlane M, Lopez L, Mackereth G, Huang QS. The second wave of 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) in New Zealand, January?October 2010. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(6)
ii=19788. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19788Date of submission: 12 November 2010
This paper uses data from multiple surveillance systems to describe the experience in New Zealand with the second complete wave of pandemic influenza A(H1N1)2009 in 2010. Measures such as hospitalisation rates suggest the overall impact of influenza A(H1N1)2009 in 2010 was between half and two thirds that of the first wave in 2009. There was considerable regional and sub-regional variation with a tendency for higher activity in areas that experienced low rates in 2009. Demographic characteristics of the second wave were similar to those in 2009 with highest rates seen in children under the age of five years, and in indigenous Māori and Pacific peoples. Hospital services including intensive care units were not under as much pressure as in 2009. Immunisation appears to have contributed to the reduced impact of the pandemic in 2010, particularly for those aged 60 years and older.
-
-----