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Editor, Senior Moderator
J Pediatr
. 2025 Apr 17:114594.
doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2025.114594. Online ahead of print. Influenza-Associated Mortality among Children in Canada from 2004 to 2022
Jennifer Tam[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jacqueline Modler[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Julie A Bettinger[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Catherine Burton[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Scott A Halperin[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Taj Jadavji[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Kescha Kazmi[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Manish Sadarangani[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Tilmann Schober[SUP] 8 [/SUP], Dat Tran[SUP] 9 [/SUP], Shaun K Morris[SUP] 10 [/SUP], Jesse Papenburg[SUP] 11 [/SUP]; Canadian Immunization Monitoring Program Active (IMPACT) Investigators
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We identified 80 pediatric influenza-associated deaths in Canadian pediatric tertiary hospitals from 2004 to 2022. Children aged <5 years and with high-risk conditions represented 55% and 77.5% of cases, respectively. Only 24.5% of age-eligible hospitalized cases with known vaccination status had been immunized against influenza that season. Vaccination efforts should be enhanced to reduce influenza mortality.
Keywords: Canada; active surveillance; influenza; mortality; pediatric.
. 2025 Apr 17:114594.
doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2025.114594. Online ahead of print. Influenza-Associated Mortality among Children in Canada from 2004 to 2022
Jennifer Tam[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jacqueline Modler[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Julie A Bettinger[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Catherine Burton[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Scott A Halperin[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Taj Jadavji[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Kescha Kazmi[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Manish Sadarangani[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Tilmann Schober[SUP] 8 [/SUP], Dat Tran[SUP] 9 [/SUP], Shaun K Morris[SUP] 10 [/SUP], Jesse Papenburg[SUP] 11 [/SUP]; Canadian Immunization Monitoring Program Active (IMPACT) Investigators
Affiliations
- PMID: 40252962
- DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2025.114594
We identified 80 pediatric influenza-associated deaths in Canadian pediatric tertiary hospitals from 2004 to 2022. Children aged <5 years and with high-risk conditions represented 55% and 77.5% of cases, respectively. Only 24.5% of age-eligible hospitalized cases with known vaccination status had been immunized against influenza that season. Vaccination efforts should be enhanced to reduce influenza mortality.
Keywords: Canada; active surveillance; influenza; mortality; pediatric.