Giuseppe
Emeritus
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
Ireland (HPSC influenza, http://www.hpsc.ie/hpsc/A-Z/Respira...za/Surveillance/InfluenzaSurveillanceReports/ ):
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Ireland (HPSC influenza, http://www.hpsc.ie/hpsc/A-Z/Respira...za/Surveillance/InfluenzaSurveillanceReports/ ):
- For the 2010/2011 season, to date (9 February 2011), 848 confirmed influenza cases have been hospitalised, 113 cases have been admitted to intensive care units and 18 deaths have been reported to HPSC.
- At the peak this represented 1.1 cases /100 000 population requiring higher level (intensive) care.
- As of 9 February, there remained 59 hospitalised cases, a total that has not changed in the last week.
- Thirty-one of the hospitalised cases remained in intensive care.
- Eighty-six (76%) of the 113 cases had underlying medical conditions.
- The underlying medical conditions include: chronic respiratory disease, chronic heart disease, immunosuppression, pregnancy, metabolic disorders and morbid obesity.
- HPSC has been informed of 18 influenza- associated deaths to date this season of which 14 had influenza A(H1N1)2009, one influenza A (unsubtyped) and three influenza B.
- One death was in a patient in the 0?4 year age group, 13 patients were in the 15?64 year age group and four patients were aged 65 years and older.
- Most deaths (16 out of 18) occurred in patients with underlying medical conditions.
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