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Editor, Senior Moderator
Eurosurveillance, Volume 20, Issue 11, 19 March 2015
Rapid communications
Excess mortality among the elderly in European countries, December 2014 to February 2015
K M?lbak (
)[SUP]1[/SUP], L Espenhain[SUP]1[/SUP], J Nielsen[SUP]1[/SUP], K Tersago[SUP]2[/SUP], N Bossuyt[SUP]2[/SUP], G Denissov[SUP]3[/SUP], A Baburin[SUP]3[/SUP], M Virtanen[SUP]4[/SUP], A Fouillet[SUP]5[/SUP], T Sideroglou[SUP]6[/SUP], K Gkolfinopoulou[SUP]6[/SUP], A Paldy[SUP]7[/SUP], J Bobvos[SUP]7[/SUP], L van Asten[SUP]8[/SUP], M de Lange[SUP]8[/SUP], B Nunes[SUP]9[/SUP], S da Silva[SUP]9[/SUP], A Larrauri[SUP]10[/SUP], I L G?mez[SUP]10[/SUP], A Tsoumanis[SUP]11[/SUP], C Junker[SUP]12[/SUP], H Green[SUP]13[/SUP], R Pebody[SUP]13[/SUP], J McMenamin[SUP]14[/SUP], A Reynolds[SUP]14[/SUP], A Mazick[SUP]1[/SUP]
Citation style for this article: M?lbak K, Espenhain L, Nielsen J, Tersago K, Bossuyt N, Denissov G, Baburin A, Virtanen M, Fouillet A, Sideroglou T, Gkolfinopoulou K, Paldy A, Bobvos J, van Asten L, de Lange M, Nunes B, da Silva S, Larrauri A, G?mez IL, Tsoumanis A, Junker C, Green H, Pebody R, McMenamin J, Reynolds A, Mazick A. Excess mortality among the elderly in European countries, December 2014 to February 2015. Euro Surveill. 2015;20(11)
ii=21065. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=21065
Date of submission: 23 February 2015
Since December 2014 and up to February 2015, the weekly number of excess deaths from all-causes among individuals ≥ 65 years of age in 14 European countries have been significantly higher than in the four previous winter seasons. The rise in unspecified excess mortality coincides with increased proportion of influenza detection in the European influenza surveillance schemes with a main predominance of influenza A(H3N2) viruses seen throughout Europe in the current season, though cold snaps and other respiratory infections may also have had an effect.
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Rapid communications
Excess mortality among the elderly in European countries, December 2014 to February 2015
K M?lbak (
- Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium
- National Institute for Health Devlopment, Tallinn, Estonia
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (Institut de Veille Sanitaire, InVS), Saint-Maurice, France
- Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Athens, Greece
- National Institute of Environmental Health, Budapest, Hungary
- National Institute of Public Health and The Environment (RIVM), the Netherlands
- Instituto Nacional de Sa?de Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal
- National Centre of Epidemiology; CIBER Epidemiolog?a y Salud P?blica (CIBERESP) Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- The Public Health Agency of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
- Federal Statistical Office, Neuch?tel, Switzerland
- Public Health England, London, United Kingdom
- Health Protection Scotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Citation style for this article: M?lbak K, Espenhain L, Nielsen J, Tersago K, Bossuyt N, Denissov G, Baburin A, Virtanen M, Fouillet A, Sideroglou T, Gkolfinopoulou K, Paldy A, Bobvos J, van Asten L, de Lange M, Nunes B, da Silva S, Larrauri A, G?mez IL, Tsoumanis A, Junker C, Green H, Pebody R, McMenamin J, Reynolds A, Mazick A. Excess mortality among the elderly in European countries, December 2014 to February 2015. Euro Surveill. 2015;20(11)
ii=21065. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=21065Date of submission: 23 February 2015
Since December 2014 and up to February 2015, the weekly number of excess deaths from all-causes among individuals ≥ 65 years of age in 14 European countries have been significantly higher than in the four previous winter seasons. The rise in unspecified excess mortality coincides with increased proportion of influenza detection in the European influenza surveillance schemes with a main predominance of influenza A(H3N2) viruses seen throughout Europe in the current season, though cold snaps and other respiratory infections may also have had an effect.
full article
http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=21065