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Very little influenza in the WHO European Region during the 2020/21 season, weeks40 2020 to 8 2021
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| Title: | Very little influenza in the WHO European Region during the 2020/21 season, weeks40 2020 to 8 2021 |
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| Date: | 2021-03-18 |
| Language: | English |
| Scope: | 8 |
| University/Institute: | Landspitali - The National University Hospital of Iceland |
| Department: | Faculty of Medicine Clinical Laboratory Services, Diagnostics and Blood Bank |
| Series: | Eurosurveillance; 26(11) |
| ISSN: | 1025-496X |
| DOI: | 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.11.2100221 |
| Subject: | COVID-19; Inflúensa; Faraldsfræði; COVID-19; Influenza, Human / epidemiology; sentinel surveillance; Epidemiology; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Virology |
| URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/3212 |
Citation:the European Influenza Surveillance Network 2021 , ' Very little influenza in the WHO European Region during the 2020/21 season, weeks40 2020 to 8 2021 ' , Eurosurveillance , vol. 26 , no. 11 , pp. 1-8 . https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.11.2100221
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Abstract:Between weeks40 2020 and 8 2021, the World Health Organization European Region experienced a 99.8% reduction in sentinel influenza virus positive detec-tions (33/25,606 tested; 0.1%) relative to an average of 14,966/39,407 (38.0%; p<0.001) over the same time in the previous six seasons. COVID-19 pandemic public health and physical distancing measures may have extinguished the 2020/21 European seasonal influenza epidemic with just a few sporadic detections of all viral subtypes. This might possibly continue dur-ing the remainder of the influenza season. We study features of influenza epidemiology in the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region from week40 2020 to week8 2021, a period when in usual seasons the highest influenza activity (peak of seasonal epidemic) would be expected. Results are compared to those of the previous six seasons (2014/15-2019/20).
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Description:Funding: ECDC and WHO internal funds. Publisher Copyright: © This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence and indicate if changes were made.
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