FW: Australian Influenza Surveillance Report no.44. 2010

[Wishart, Michael]

Dear All

The Australian Influenza Surveillance Report no.44. 2010 which reports on
influenza activity up until 5 November 2010 has been produced.

Of note
Levels of influenza-like illness (ILI) in the community remained low
through all surveillance systems this reporting period. Sporadic, regionalor widespread activity was reported within jurisdictions. The number of
laboratory confirmed notifications continued to decline.
There were 162 laboratory confirmed notifications of influenza during thisreporting period, including 67 pandemic (H1N1) 2009 cases. Queensland and
South Australia continued to report the highest number of notifications.
Results from sentinel laboratory surveillance systems for this reporting
period show that 13% of the respiratory tests conducted over this period
were positive for influenza, although this is slightly higher that the
previous reporting period (11%), it is similar to previous weeks. During
this period a third of the positive influenza specimens were influenza
type B with the majority from WA and the remainder from the NT.
In 2010, a total of 1,419 specimens have been positive for influenza (of
15,704 specimens tested by sentinel laboratories), of which 64% were
pandemic (H1N1) 2009, 25% were influenza B, 9% were A/H3N2 and 2% were
influenza A untyped. The majority of influenza B positive specimens have
been from WA.
As at 5 November 2010, there have been 11,317 confirmed cases of influenzareported to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS)
in 2010. A total of 44,403 confirmed cases of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 have
occurred in Australia since May 2009, including 6,767 in 2010.
ANZICS reported no ICU admissions for influenza this reporting period.
The WHO has advised that the world is no longer in phase 6 of influenza
pandemic alert and has moved into the post pandemic period.
This will be the final Australian Influenza Surveillance Report for 2010,
unless unusual activity becomes apparent over the summer months.

A summary version of this report will shortly be available on the web at
the following address:
http://www.healthemergency.gov.au/internet/healthemergency/publishing.nsf/Content/resources

If you have any questions, comments or feedback please reply to
flu@health.gov.au

Kind regards,
Kristy Richards
Influenza Surveillance Team
Vaccine Preventable Disease Surveillance Section
Surveillance Branch
Office of Health Protection

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