France: ECDC weekly influenza update, January 28 2011

[Giuseppe]

Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), full PDF document http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/public...UR_Weekly_Influenza_Surveillance_Overview.pdf

• France:
  • By week 3/2011 in the sentinel network of hospitals Oscour, 1439 emergencies consultations for influenza-like illness had been reported with 91 hospitalizations.
  • The overall number of consultations and hospitalizations for influenza continued to decrease as it has been doing since week 01/2011, although the numbers in the 5 to 14 year age group have continued to increase.
  • In the national network of paediatric and adult intensive care units (ICUs), the numbers have also been decreasing since week 01/2011.
  • Considered cumulatively, 395 ICU influenza cases have been reported from ICUs, with influenza A (H1N1)2009 predominating (around seventy percent of cases being between 15 and 64 years of age).
  • A clinical risk factor is reported in most cases; conversely, 38% of these severe cases were reported to have no identified risk factor.
  • In this network there had been 43 deaths reported representing 11% of reports.

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