Seasonal influenza
Seasonal influenza is a vaccine-preventable disease that each year infects approximately ten to thirty per cent of Europe's population, and causes hundreds of thousands of hospitalisations across Europe. Older people, younger children and those with chronic conditions suffer the most, but everyone is at risk of developing serious complications—which include pneumonia, myocarditis and encephalitis—that may result in death.
Surveillance and disease data
- Weekly influenza update
- Influenza Virus Characterisations Reports, summary Europe
- Disease data from ECDC Surveillance Atlas
- Influenza season summaries
- Annual epidemiological reports
- National, regional and global influenza surveillance reports
- Facts about influenza surveillance
- ECDC publications and peer-reviewed articles
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Other types of influenza
2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic
The 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic was declared over in August 2010 by the World Health Organization. Europe has now entered a new inter-pandemic phase of seasonal influenza.