Observational studyEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2019
Intense interseasonal influenza outbreaks, Australia, 2018/19.
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- Interrupted time-series analysis showed unintended consequences of non-pharmaceutical interventions on pediatric hospital admissions.Journal of clinical epidemiology · 2022Article
- Genomic epidemiology of seasonal influenza circulation in China during prolonged border closure from 2020 to 2021.Virus evolution · 2022Article
- Evidence for an increase in the intensity of inter-seasonal influenza, Queensland, Australia, 2009-2019.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2021Article
- Development of a Dissemination Platform for Spatiotemporal and Phylogenetic Analysis of Avian Infectious Bronchitis Virus.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2021Article
- The relationship between cyclonic weather regimes and seasonal influenza over the Eastern Mediterranean.The Science of the total environment · 2021Article
- Where has all the influenza gone? The impact of COVID-19 on the circulation of influenza and other respiratory viruses, Australia, March to September 2020.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2020Article
- The Phylodynamics of Seasonal Influenza A/H1N1pdm Virus in China Between 2009 and 2019.Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
- Update: Influenza Activity - United States and Worldwide, May 19-September 28, 2019, and Composition of the 2020 Southern Hemisphere Influenza Vaccine.MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report · 2019Article
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Abstract
BackgroundInterseasonal influenza outbreaks are not unusual in countries with temperate climates and well-defined influenza seasons. Usually, these are small and diminish before the main influenza season begins. However, the 2018/19 summer-autumn interseasonal influenza period in Australia saw unprecedented large and widespread influenza outbreaks.AimOur objective was to determine the extent of the intense 2018/19 interseasonal influenza outbreaks in Australia epidemiologically and examine the genetic, antigenic and structural properties of the viruses responsible for these outbreaks.MethodsThis observational study combined the epidemiological and virological surveillance data obtained from the Australian Government Department of Health, the New South Wales Ministry of Health, sentinel outpatient surveillance, public health laboratories and data generated by the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza in Melbourne and the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research.ResultsThere was a record number of laboratory-confirmed influenza cases during the interseasonal period November 2018 to May 2019 (n= 85,286; 5 times the previous 3-year average) and also more institutional outbreaks, hospitalisations and deaths, than what is normally seen.ConclusionsThe unusually large interseasonal influenza outbreaks in 2018/19 followed a mild 2018 influenza season and resulted in a very early start to the 2019 influenza season across Australia. The reasons for this unusual event have yet to be fully elucidated but are likely to be a complex mix of climatic, virological and host immunity-related factors. These outbreaks reinforce the need for year-round surveillance of influenza, even in temperate climates with strong seasonality patterns.
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