WHO/Europe supports ongoing efforts to reduce influenza-related morbidity and mortality by strengthening surveillance of mild and severe influenza, and by assisting countries to use these surveillance data, along with vital statistics such as mortality data, to estimate the burden of seasonal influenza. The majority of cases (87%) were due to influenza type A viruses. The season was characterized by a dominance of influenza A viruses, with detection of both influenza A virus subtypes – A(H1N1)pdm09 and A(H3N2) – and very few influenza B viruses. In laboratory-confirmed influenza cases in ICU (n=3 954), influenza virus type A viruses were detected in 90% and type B in 10% of all cases. Review of the 2018-2019 influenza season in the northern hemisphere. Number of deaths per week (grey), influenza-related excess mortality (red), and temperature-related excess mortality (green) in each age group and in total, Sweden, 2014–2019 (week 23). The total for the season is 174. Weekly uptake: Up to week 50 2019, in 79.4% of GP practices reporting for the main collection, the provisional proportion of people in England who had received the 2019/20 influenza vaccine in targeted groups was: 38.5% in under 65 years in a clinical risk group, 39.5% in pregnant 69.3% in 65+ year olds. The 2018–2019 influenza season in Europe has finally drawn to a close, having begun in late November and peaked between late January and early February. 10.1002/jmv.26120 [Europe PMC free article] [Google Scholar] Indicator full name: Influenza, number of deaths, by sex Unit: number of deaths Dimensions: Age group (AGE_GRP_LIST) Country (COUNTRY) Supranational group of countries (COUNTRY_GRP) Sex (SEX) Subnational country codes for HFA-MDB (SUBNATIONAL_MDB) Year of measure (YEAR) Years data is available: 1979—2018 ... Europe: The most up-to-date influenza information from Europe is available from WHO/Europe and the European Centre … This report summarizes the 2018-2019 influenza season in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Influenza (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) codes J09-J11) is an annual, seasonal infectious disease caused by the influenza virus; it affects Europe in the winter. [5] Looking back to 2010/2011, the flu epidemic in 2017/2018 was second worst in terms of hospital admissions behind … The approximately 60,000 flu-related deaths in 2018/2019 are also lower than in 2017/2018, where the CDC recorded 78,000 deaths. In 2012, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) appeared in the Middle East and spread from there to Europe, North America, Africa and Asia, although deaths occurred only in Asia and Europe. J Med Virol. Read the review in the Weekly epidemiological record Nine countries reported a total of 10 705 laboratory-confirmed hospitalised influenza cases during the 2019 2020 influenza season. Four influenza-associated pediatric deaths occurring during the 2019-2020 season were reported this week. Epidemiological evidence for association between higher influenza vaccine uptake in the elderly and lower COVID‐19 deaths in Italy [published online ahead of print June 9, 2020].