The influenza A(H5N1) epidemic at six and a half years: 500 notified human cases and more to come

A Tarantola; P Barboza; V Gauthier; S Ioos; N El Omeiri; M Gastellu-Etchegorry; Collective for the Epidemic Intelligence team at InVS

doi:10.2807/ese.15.29.19619-en

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The influenza A(H5N1) epidemic at six and a half years: 500 notified human cases and more to come
A Tarantola¹ , P Barboza¹ , V Gauthier¹ , S Ioos¹ , N El Omeiri¹ , M Gastellu-Etchegorry¹ , Collective for the Epidemic Intelligence team at InVS²
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Affiliations: ¹ International and Tropical Department, Institut de Veille Sanitaire, Saint-Maurice, France ² The members of the team are listed at the end of the article

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Citation style for this article: Tarantola A, Barboza P, Gauthier V, Ioos S, El Omeiri N, Gastellu-Etchegorry M, for the Epidemic Intelligence team at InVS Collective. The influenza A(H5N1) epidemic at six and a half years: 500 notified human cases and more to come. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(29):pii=19619. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.15.29.19619-en Received: 09 Jul 2010

Abstract

Since November 2003, the epidemic intelligence team at the French Institut de Veille Sanitaire has been gathering data on influenza A(H5N1) circulation in poultry and on human cases worldwide. As Indonesia notifies the world's 500th case to the World Health Organization, we discuss the epidemiological situation and trends of A(H5N1) influenza. Although the overall number of cases reported worldwide has decreased, influenza A(H5N1) continues to circulate intensely in some countries and more cases are to be expected, especially in Egypt and Indonesia. .