Outbreak: #Influenza A (not subtyped)
Facility: Linhaven Nursing Home
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Lincoln
Location: #StCatharines #Ontario
Date: 2025-03-31
Public Health Unit: #Niagara Region Public Health Department
Facility Tracking Hash: #NRPH0015
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObNRPH
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Outbreak: #Influenza A (not subtyped)
Facility: Kentwood Park
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Facility Wide
Location: #Picton #Ontario
Date: 2025-03-26
Public Health Unit: South East Health Unit
Facility Tracking Hash: #SEHU0048 (formerly #HPEC0012)
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObSEHU (formerly #OnObHPEC)
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Infection status
Released Apr 4, 2025.
- As of period from Mar 24 - Mar 30, 2025 -
No. of patients per medical facility (nationwide) 2.92
Change from prev. week -0.31
[Source: Health-Labor-Welfare Ministry weekly report]
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/001471932.pdf
Small decrease
Saga at 2.62, Tokyo at 1.93, Akita at 1.54, Hokkaido at 2.87, Okinawa at 1.41
Nagano at 4.78
#Influenza (nationwide) 1.85
Change from prev. week -0.13
#Nagano at 4.0
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/001471921.pdf
#CovidIsNotOver #Japan
Infection status
Released Mar 28, 2025.
- As of period from Mar 17 - Mar 23, 2025 -
No. of patients per medical facility (nationwide) 3.23
Change from prev. week -0.62
[Source: Health-Labor-Welfare Ministry weekly report]
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/001464404.pdfSmall decrease
Saga at 4.33, Tokyo at 2.31, Akita at 2.5, Hokkaido at 3.38, Okinawa at 1.09
Ibaraki at 5.28
#Influenza (nationwide) 1.98
Change from prev. week -0.25
#Niigata at 5.02
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/001464464.pdf
#CovidIsNotOver #Japan
#Mexico: The Ministry of #Health reports the #detection of the first #human case of avian #influenza A (#H5N1), https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/04/mexico-ministry-of-health-reports.html
COVID numbers are going up, but #flu and #RSV cases continue to drop in #NYC. We still don't have accurate hospitalization numbers for #influenza and #RSVirus here, but it looks like the overall risk of hospitalization and death from acute airborne infectious diseases is dropping.
I'm going to plan for indoor dining and singing, and maybe travel, but as long as this many people are dying and being hospitalized I'll #WearAMask in elevators, trains, doctor's offices, pharmacies and supermarkets!
Outbreak: #Influenza A (not subtyped)
Facility: Caressant Care - Bourget
Facility Type: LTC Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Facility Wide
Location: #Bourget #Ontario
Date: 2025-04-03
Public Health Unit: Eastern Ontario Health Unit
Facility Tracking Hash: #EOHU0037
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObEOHU
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Outbreak: #Influenza A (not subtyped)
Facility: Ontario Finnish Resthome - Kotitalo
Facility Type: Retirement Home
Unit/Floor/Area: Facility Wide
Location: #SaultSteMarie #Ontario
Date: 2025-04-01
Public Health Unit: Algoma Public Health Unit
Facility Tracking Hash: #APHU0010
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObAPHU
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Outbreak: #Influenza A (not subtyped)
Facility: Credit Valley Hospital
Facility Type: Hospital (Acute Care)
Unit/Floor/Area: 2B Medicine / Nephrology
Location: #Mississauga #Ontario
Date: 2025-04-03
Public Health Unit: Peel Public Health
Facility Tracking Hash: #PPHU0020
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObPPHU
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#UK {#England} - High pathogenicity avian #influenza #H5N1 viruses (#poultry) (Inf. with) - Immediate notification, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/04/uk-england-high-pathogenicity-avian.html
#Germany - #Influenza A #H5N1 viruses of high pathogenicity (Inf. with) (non-poultry including wild birds) (2017-) - Immediate notification, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/04/germany-influenza-h5n1-viruses-of-high.html
No worse than the flu?
I've lost track of how many different ways this claim is false. But here's yet another:
Healthcare workers with chronic condition miss more days of work due to COVID than flu
67% vs 12% of absences due to COVID, flu
Diese Kombi sehen wir nicht oft. Und dem Patienten geht es deshalb nicht doppelt so schlecht.
#Denmark - High pathogenicity avian #influenza #H5N1 viruses (#poultry) (Inf. with) - Immediate notification, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/04/denmark-high-pathogenicity-avian.html
#India - High pathogenicity avian #influenza #H5N1 viruses (#poultry) (Inf. with) - Immediate notification, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/04/india-high-pathogenicity-avian.html
Okay, #Novavax and #Influenza vaccination at the same time yesterday is ... very noticeable today.
But assuming the summer wave mostly repeats like the last years, now is a good time!
Especially since Novavax expires soon and it's a good heterologous vaccination scheme to mix with the mRNA one in autumn.
(Vaccine protection wanes after 3-6 months. Get safer.)
Introducing a #framework for within-host #dynamics and #mutations modelling of #H5N1 #influenza infection in #humans, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/04/introducing-framework-for-within-host.html
#Covid #Influenza #RSV #Wastewater_prevalences
Reliability and calibration of respiratory virus prevalences from wastewater:
It can be shown that when properly done, wastewater measurements (the colored curves) are in high correlation with sentinel system detections (the gray bars).
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Record high Influenza cases confirmed as experts predict early flu season
By Zena Chamas
A record number of influenza cases has been recorded in Australia, jumping 50 per cent from the same period last year. Experts are predicting flu season to come earlier than usual.
Is it worth taking a RAT when you have a cold to find out what it is?
By Sam Nichols
In recent years, the familiar symptoms of the flu might kick us into reaching for at-home testing kits. But on the eve of the next flu season, public health experts say the best approach is what we've always done.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/nsw-flu-season-cold-rsv-covid-test-rat-value/105095892
