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Ireland, ECDC update, Feb 4 2011

Giuseppe

Emeritus
[Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, full PDF document (http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/public...UR_Weekly_Influenza_Surveillance_Overview.pdf ). Extract, edited.]

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Ireland (http://www.hpsc.ie/hpsc/A-Z/Respira...za/Surveillance/InfluenzaSurveillanceReports/ ):

For the 2010/2011 season, to date (2 February 2011), 803 confirmed influenza cases have been hospitalised, 103 cases have been admitted to ICUs and 15 deaths have been reported to HPSC.

At the peak, this represented 1.1 cases /105 population requiring higher level (intensive) care.

As of 2 February, 38 (37%) of the 103 hospitalised cases remained in intensive care.

Seventy-four percent of the 103 cases had underlying medical conditions.

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