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Weekly Flu Report, 27 January 2011, UK
Main Category: Flu / Cold / SARS
Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses; Public Health; Swine Flu
Article Date: 28 Jan 2011 - 5:00 PST
Latest figures from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) indicate that flu activity in the UK is continuing to decline. The predominant strain in circulation is now influenza B which has overtaken influenza A H1N1 2009 'swine flu'. This drop in activity is consistent across all the surveillance systems that are used to look at levels of flu.
In the past week, the number of number of GP consultations in England has fallen to 40.7 per 100,000, down from 66.5 per 100,000 the previous week. The baseline level is 30 per 100,000 and the peak level was 124.4 per 100,000 in the flu report dated 30 December.
The total number of people who are reported to have died from flu in the UK since the season began in October has reached 338. The vast majority of the new deaths reported today (84) did not occur in the past week - a substantial number will have occurred over the past six weeks, but due the verification process they have only been confirmed this week.
Of the 306 cases with information on age, ten have been aged less than five years; 14 were aged between 5-14; 217 aged between 15-64 and 65 were older than 64 years of age.
Where information is available on the fatal cases, 184 out of 252 (73 per cent) were in a clinical 'at risk' group for vaccination. Where information on vaccine status was available for this season's trivalent vaccine, 82 out of 108 (76 per cent) had not received their jab this season..more form the source
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/215071.php
Weekly Flu Report, 27 January 2011, UK
Main Category: Flu / Cold / SARS
Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses; Public Health; Swine Flu
Article Date: 28 Jan 2011 - 5:00 PST
Latest figures from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) indicate that flu activity in the UK is continuing to decline. The predominant strain in circulation is now influenza B which has overtaken influenza A H1N1 2009 'swine flu'. This drop in activity is consistent across all the surveillance systems that are used to look at levels of flu.
In the past week, the number of number of GP consultations in England has fallen to 40.7 per 100,000, down from 66.5 per 100,000 the previous week. The baseline level is 30 per 100,000 and the peak level was 124.4 per 100,000 in the flu report dated 30 December.
The total number of people who are reported to have died from flu in the UK since the season began in October has reached 338. The vast majority of the new deaths reported today (84) did not occur in the past week - a substantial number will have occurred over the past six weeks, but due the verification process they have only been confirmed this week.
Of the 306 cases with information on age, ten have been aged less than five years; 14 were aged between 5-14; 217 aged between 15-64 and 65 were older than 64 years of age.
Where information is available on the fatal cases, 184 out of 252 (73 per cent) were in a clinical 'at risk' group for vaccination. Where information on vaccine status was available for this season's trivalent vaccine, 82 out of 108 (76 per cent) had not received their jab this season..more form the source
