Giuseppe
Emeritus
Source: ECDC (Jan 21 2011): http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publicatio...UR_Weekly_Influenza_Surveillance_Overview.pdf
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- Spain:
- In Spain, information on severe illness due to influenza infection admitted to hospitals comes from a surveillance system developed during the 2009/2010 pandemic season for reporting severe hospitalised confirmed influenza cases.
- Since week 40/2010 and up to week 02/2011, there have been 517 severe hospitalised confirmed influenza cases reported (including 24 fatal cases).
- Severely affected cases are mostly in the 15?64 age group (69%) some without underlying conditions (22%).
- Most of the severe cases and deaths have been associated with A (H1N1)2009 and have not previously been vaccinated.
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