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Eurosurveillance: Pandemic H1N1 In The Southern Hemisphere

 

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Eurosurveillance is a European scientific journal `devoted to the epidemiology, surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases.’

 

Today’s issue Volume 14, Issue 42, 22 October 2009 focuses on the recently completed pandemic flu season south of the equator, with reports from Australia, South Africa, Peru, Brazil and Réunion Island.

 

I’ve not had time to look at these articles yet, but I wanted to get them posted.  It looks like there’s a lot of information to glean here.

 

A hat tip to Ironorehopper on FluTrackers for posting the links to several of these reports.

 

 

Eurosurveillance, Volume 14, Issue 42, 22 October 2009

Table of Contents

Editorials

Pandemic H1N1 influenza lessons from the southern hemisphere

by MG Baker, H Kelly, N Wilson

Rapid communications

 

Preliminary analysis of the pandemic H1N1 influenza on Réunion Island (Indian Ocean): surveillance trends (July to mid-September 2009)

by F Thouillot, C Do, E Balleydier, E Rachou, F Staikowsky, P Morbidelli, Y Jacques-Antoine, A Bourde, M Lagrange-Xélot, P Poubeau, A Winer, BA Gauzere, A Michault, MC Jaffar-Bandjee, G Henrion, L Filleul, E D’Ortenzio

First infections with the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus were identified on Réunion Island in July 2009. By the end of July, sustained community transmission of the virus was established. Pandemic(...)

Surveillance and outbreak reports

 

Interim report on pandemic H1N1 influenza virus infections in South Africa, April to October 2009: Epidemiology and factors associated with fatal cases

by BN Archer, C Cohen, D Naidoo, J Thomas, C Makunga, L Blumberg, M Venter, GA Timothy, A Puren, JM McAnerney, A Cengimbo, BD Schoub

We provide an interim report on pandemic H1N1 influenza activity in South Africa, with a focus on the epidemiology and factors associated with deaths. Following the importation of the virus on 14 July(...)

 

 

Pandemic H1N1 influenza in Brazil: Analysis of the first 34,506 notified cases of influenza-like illness with severe acute respiratory infection (SARI)

by WK Oliveira, EC Hage, GO Penna, RS Kuchenbecker, HB Santos, WN Araujo, R Malaguti, BB Duncan, MI Schmidt, on behalf of the Surveillance Team for the pandemic influenza A(H1N1) 2009 in the Ministry of Health

Recently, the brunt of the current influenza pandemic has been felt in the southern hemisphere. We report an analysis of the first 34,506 cases of influenza-like illness with severe acute respiratory (...)

 

 

Pandemic influenza in a southern hemisphere setting: the experience in Peru from May to September, 2009

by J Gómez, CV Munayco, JC Arrasco, L Suarez, VA Laguna-Torres, PV Aguilar, G Chowell, TJ Kochel

This paper presents a description of Peru’s experience with pandemic H1N1 influenza 2009. It is based on data from four main surveillance systems: a) ongoing sentinel surveillance of influenza-like il(...)

 

 

Progression and impact of the first winter wave of the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza in New South Wales, Australia

by New South Wales public health network

A range of surveillance systems were used to assess the progression and impact of the first wave of pandemic H1N1 influenza in New South Wales, Australia during the southern hemisphere winter. Surveil(...)

 

 

Pandemic H1N1 influenza surveillance in Victoria, Australia, April – September, 2009

by JE Fielding, N Higgins, JE Gregory, KA Grant, MG Catton, I Bergeri, RA Lester, HA Kelly

Victoria was the first Australian state to report widespread transmission of pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza. Notifiable laboratory-confirmed influenza and a general practitioner sentinel surveillance sy(...)

 

 

Early transmission characteristics of influenza A(H1N1)v in Australia: Victorian state, 16 May – 3 June 2009

by ES McBryde, I Bergeri, C van Gemert, J Rotty, EJ Headley, K Simpson, RA Lester, M Hellard, JE Fielding

Australia was one of the first countries of the southern hemisphere to experience influenza A(H1N1)v with community transmission apparent in Victoria, Australia, by 22 May 2009. With few identified im(...)

 

 

The 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza and indigenous populations of the Americas and the Pacific

by G La Ruche, A Tarantola, P Barboza, L Vaillant, J Gueguen, M Gastellu-Etchegorry, for the epidemic intelligence team at InVS

There are few structured data available to assess the risks associated with pandemic influenza A(H1N1)v infection according to ethnic groups. In countries of the Americas and the Pacific where these d(...)

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