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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Australian Influenza Surveillance 2010 - Latest report

Report No. 34 from Australia's Department of Health, excerpt :
  • Levels of influenza and influenza-like illness (ILI) in the community are continuing to show signs of increasing through all surveillance systems.
  • There were 335 laboratory confirmed notifications of influenza during this reporting period, including 221 pandemic (H1N1) 2009 cases. Notifications of laboratory confirmed influenza were highest in SA and QLD.
  • Results from sentinel laboratory surveillance systems for this reporting period show that 17% of the respiratory tests conducted over this period were positive for influenza, which is similar to the last reporting period (14%). In 2010, a total of 551 specimens have been positive for influenza (of 9,838 specimens tested), of which 68% were pandemic (H1N1) 2009 and 14% were A/H3N2.

There's more to the report, please go to the link, or click here for the detailed 17 page PDF version.

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