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
UK (HPA and DH-England):
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UK (HPA and DH-England):
- In week 3/2011, the number of patients in England with confirmed or suspected influenza in critical care beds have declined from a peak of nearly 800 three weeks ago (equivalent to 1.4 per 105 population) to around 250 cases on January 27 2011.
- Over 80% of these are in the age group 16 to 64 years.
- Up to 19 January 2011, 338 deaths have been reported in influenza cases from across the UK.
- Ninety two per cent of the 214 cases were associated with A(H1N1)2009, 2% with untyped influenza A and 6% with influenza B infection.
- Reported deaths associated with influenza have been mainly in younger adults and children.
- Amongst cases with information on age, 3% have been younger than 5 years; 5% between 5 to 14 years; 71% from 15 to 64 years and 21% were 65 years or older.
- Of those with available information, 73% were in one of the clinical risk groups for vaccination, which includes pregnant women.
- Important reported clinical risk factors included underlying respiratory disease including asthma (27% of those in the clinical risk groups) and immunosuppression (23%).
- Of the cases with information on immunisation history, 76% had not received the 2010 trivalent vaccine and 95% had not received the pandemic vaccine.
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