Background The Northern Territory (NT) of Australia has a mix of climates, sparsely distributed population and a large proportion of the populace are Indigenous Australians, and influenza is known to have a disproportionate impact upon this group. Understanding the epidemiology of influenza in this ...
SYDNEY, May 25 (Xinhua) -- Health authorities of Australia's state of New South Wales (NSW) urged residents to get vaccinated against flu as it continues to see a rise of influenza cases amid high COVID-19 infections. NSW Health said on Tuesday that the state's hospitals are facing a ...
CANBERRA, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Australia is on track to set its highest number of influenza infections in recent years. According to the latest update from the Australian Influenza Surveillance Report, there had been 147,155 laboratory-confirmed influenza cases and 54 influenza-associated deaths as...
The U.S., with an average of 13.5 million annual influenza cases, bears the brunt of the disease in the region. Well-equipped hospitals and laboratories, coupled with widespread adoption of electronic health records, facilitate the use of sophisticated diagnostic tools such as molecular assays and...
To determine the epidemiology of influenza B relative to influenza A in Australia. Laboratory‐confirmed influenza notifications between 2001 and 2014 in Australia were obtained from the Australian National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. A total of 278485 laboratory‐confirmed influenza cases were ...
2009. This prompted the rapid implementation of mitigation procedures, including the distribution of drugs to treatment facilities, in countries worldwide. Despite these measures, the virus continued to spread globally. On June 11, 2009, following an increase in cases in Chile, Australia, and theUn...
2009. This prompted the rapid implementation of mitigation procedures, including the distribution of drugs to treatment facilities, in countries worldwide. Despite these measures, the virus continued to spread globally. On June 11, 2009, following an increase in cases in Chile, Australia, and theUn...
(WHO) in October 2023, around 3 to 5 million severe influenza cases were recorded, leading to 290,000 to 650,000 deaths across the globe. Out of the total deaths caused by influenza, the majority occur in children. The increasing prevalence of seasonal outbreaks and epidemics is projected ...
While some of the techniques used to forecast influenza are statistical, i.e., using the patterns in the time-series data of cases and associated datasets, other methods involve a mechanistic representation of the disease process itself. This usually involves capturing the mechanisms and associated ...
In Australia in April this year, there were 25 cases of influenza A and 8 cases of influenza B reported. Most of these, 11 of type A and all 8 type B occurred in Western Australia. In May, 33 type A and two type B were reported. Of these, 25 type A were in South Australia and...