France: ECDC weekly influenza update, Feb 11 2011

[Giuseppe]

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

France (INVS, http://www.invs.sante.fr/display/?do...tu_2010_11.htm ):

• By week 5/2011, in the sentinel network of hospitals Oscour, 1506 emergency consultations for influenza-like illness had been reported with 75 hospitalisations which is a little less than in week 4.
• In the national network of paediatric and adult intensive care units (ICUs), the numbers have also been decreasing since week 01/2011.
• Considered cumulatively, 534 influenza cases have been reported from ICUs with influenza A(H1N1)2009 predominating and around 70% of cases being between 15 and 64 years of age.
• A clinical risk factor is reported in most cases.
• Conversely, 37% of these severe cases were reported to have no identified risk factor.
• In this network, 63 deaths have been reported which represents 12% of reports.

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