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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
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
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(...)
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 (...)
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(...)
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(...)
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(...)
