Giuseppe
Emeritus
From ECDC (Jan 21 2011): http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publicatio...UR_Weekly_Influenza_Surveillance_Overview.pdf
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- Ireland Health Protection Surveillance Centre:
- So far for the 2010/2011 season, 82 influenza cases have been admitted to intensive care in Ireland: 81 A(H1N1) 2009 and one A H3.
- Six influenza associated deaths have been reported to HPSC this season: 5 A(H1N1) 2009 (all admitted to ICU) and one influenza B death (not admitted to ICU).
- During week 2/2011, the number of hospitalised cases of influenza has continued to increase, with 573 cases hospitalised to date this season (as of January 19th 2011) and reports of 90 cases admitted to ICU.
- Enhanced surveillance information is available for 82 cases, 73 of whom are adults and nine are paediatric cases.
- Fifty‐two (63.4%) of the 82 cases are currently in ICU.
- Sixty of the 82 (73.1%) cases have underlying medical conditions: 54 adults and six paediatric cases.
- The underlying medical conditions include chronic respiratory disease, chronic heart disease, immunosuppression, pregnancy, metabolic disorders and morbid obesity.
- The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has been informed of six influenza associated deaths to date this season, five influenza A (H1N1) 2009 and one influenza B. One death was in a patient in the 0–4 year age group, two patients were in the 15–64 year age group and three patients were aged 65 years or older. Five deaths occurred in patients with underlying medical conditions. One death occurred in week 52/2010, one in week 1/2011 and four in week 2/2011.
- For further data and analyses, see the HSPC Report here.
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