Euskadi has an incidence of 327.4 cases of influenza per 100,000 population COUNTRY - Bilbao - 08/01/2011
The flu has spread in Euskadi with an incidence of 327.4 cases of influenza per 100,000 population in the last week of the year, according to the National Epidemiological Surveillance Network of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, nationally, continues to record increase in influenza activity. These data place Euskadi as the second community with the highest incidence rates, only to Asturias with 440.7 cases.
In the latest weekly report, noted that this increase is associated with a greater spread of H1N1 virus, and is also the cause of 85% of severe cases of influenza requiring hospitalization for recovery. Thus, the data for the week of Dec. 26 to Jan. 1 show how the incidence rate in that period was in the whole of Spain to 153.04 cases per 100,000 population, almost double the contagion 82.62 the previous week. It is also the second week Consect in which the threshold is exceeded baseline established for this flu season, set at 67.4 cases per 100,000 population.
The level of influenza intensity, as notes the Sentinel Physician Network, is average, with a regional level of geographic spread of the disease and an upward trend compared to previous weeks.
Regarding the most affected communities, Asturias is, for the third consecutive week, which has a higher incidence rate, with 440.7 cases per 100,000 population, followed by the Basque Country (327.4), La Rioja (280.2) , Castilla y León (248.4), Extremadura (239.1), Catalonia (189.4), Navarre (175.9) and Cantabria (159.7).
Below the national average are Ceuta (133.4), Aragon (123.2), Canarias (122.4), Baleares (109.8), Castilla-La Mancha (94.8), Madrid (91, 7), Valencia (78) and Andalusia (46), while that of Galicia, Murcia and Melilla are not specified data.
In the distribution by age group, children under 15 years are the group most affected, although this week highlights the significant increase in reported incidence rates of influenza in groups of between 15 and 64 and those over 65, which we see a clear rise in the slope of epidemic wave of the season. "
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