doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.331.7529.1412Udo BuchholzBmj
Now they are reported as a range from a low of about 3,300 deaths to a high of 49,000 per year. Three influenza pandemics occurred in the 20th century and killed tens of millions of people, with each of these pandemics being caused by the appearance of a new strain of the virus in...
10/4/2006 - A scientific study suggests that the number of infected individuals and deaths from influenza during the first year of a pandemic could be substantially reduced by a combination of voluntary household-based quarantine and isolation of actively infected individuals in a location outside ...
Influenza infections result in substantial morbidity and mortality nearly every year1,2 and estimates of this burden have played a pivotal role in formulating influenza vaccination policy in the United States.3 However, numbers of deaths attributable to influenza are difficult to estimate directly becaus...
This report summarizes the results of this analysis. From 1979 to 1994, the overall crude death rates for P&I (based on underlying cause of death) increased 59%, from 20.0 to 31.8 deaths per 100000 population. From 1979 to 1992 (the most recent year for Full Text ...
Avian influenza A (H7N9) virus has repeatedly crossed species barriers and infected humans. Since its first emergence in 2013, H7N9 influenza has caused 1,568 laboratory-confirmed cases and 616 deaths, particularly in men18,19. Avian influenza viruses are considered as one of the major candidates...
which combines data regarding excess deaths in European countries to estimate Europe-wide excess mortality22,23. The number of countries included in the calculation of excess deaths ranged from 7 in 2010/2011 to 24 in 2017/2018. For seasons that were (1) dominated by a single (sub)type in...
2008). Most deaths have occurred in China, Vietnam, and Indonesia and are usually due to acute respiratory death syndrome (Kawachi et al., 2009) and well-described cases do not includeneurologic symptomsand signs (Hien et al., 2004). In a study of a 6-year-old boy who died ofac...
This time-series analysis of vital statistics records and emergency department visits in New York City of cardiovascular-related deaths quantifies the
Every year, influenza (flu) is estimated to cause between 9.3 million and 45 million illnesses, leading to 12 000 to 61 000 deaths in the US. Impact of Influenza Vaccination The seasonal influenza vaccine is the single most powerful tool to protect individuals from influenza and decrease ...