The levels of flu levels are coming down in several European nations. The activity of the flu continues to be widespread in quite a number of European nations. However, seventeen nations reported reducing indicators, as said by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) on Saturday.
The proportion of positive respiratory specimens came down to 40 per cent previous week, which had been at 43 per cent the week prior to that. Also, the high of 57 per cent witnessed towards the end of last year. Meanwhile rising flu activity had been reported by merely 3 nations, Austria, Iceland, and Romania.
The amount of extreme flu infections has come down all over the western side of the European continent, excluding Greece, however the extreme disease picture is still in doubt in the central and eastern parts of Europe, wherein the hospital surveillance has been restricted.
A majority of the extremely serious flu infections have got associated with the H1N1 virus that caused terror in the year 2009. Approximately 67 per cent of the flu viruses turn out to be influenza A, almost their entirety being the 2009 H1N1 strain, contrary to the combination of the H1N1 and H3N2 strains in North America.
by Annabel Tautou
French Tribune