Flu Report: Canada

National Flu Activity: January 24 - January 30, 2010 (Week 4)

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National Flu Activity Map

Nova Scotia New Brunswick Newfoundland and Labrador Nunavut Northwest Territories Yukon British Columbia Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba Ontario Quebec Prince Edward Island

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National Summary

  • New this week: Please see the table at the end of this report for weekly and cumulative number of deaths due to pandemic H1N1 2009, by province/territory, Canada, as of 4 February 2010, 11h00 EDT.
  • During week 4, all influenza indicators remained low for this time of the year.
  • Although, there was an increase in the number of influenza-like-illness outbreaks reported this week (11 in schools and one in a residential institution), only 0.6% (13 out of 2318) of the specimens tested were positive for influenza (7 pandemic H1N1 2009, 6 influenza A not-subtyped and one B). It is important to note that most ILI school outbreaks are based on symptoms and are not laboratory-confirmed. Therefore, school outbreaks could be due to influenza or any other respiratory pathogen such as the respiratory syncytial virus for whose detection continued to increase in a number of provinces this week.
  • Thirty-one hospitalized cases, no ICU admissions and 1 death were reported during week 4. The death was from ON. Only six hospitalized cases reported since the beginning of the pandemic had symptom onset dates in 2010.
  • On January 27, 2010, the Public Health Agency of Canada announced that the second wave of pandemic H1N1 2009 has tapered off.

National Positive Flu Tests

  January 24 - January 30, 2010 Total 2009-2010 Flu Season
(Aug 30 - Jan 30, 2010)
  Flu* H1N1 Flu* H1N1
Alberta 1 2 106 5757
British Columbia 0 1 566 5804
Manitoba 0 1 127 1788
New Brunswick 0 0 22 1835
Newfoundland and Labrador 0 0 0 951
Nova Scotia 1 0 33 751
Ontario 4 3 4355 3548
Prince Edward Island 0 0 1 96
Quebec 1 0 53 10643
Saskatchewan 0 0 300 2298
Canada 7 7 5563 33471
* Flu like symptoms that have not been lab-tested and may include some H1N1.

National H1N1 Statistics

  January 24 - January 30, 2010 Total 2009-2010 Flu Season
(Aug 30 - Jan 30, 2010)
  Hospitalizations Deaths Hospitalizations Deaths
Alberta 1 0 1147 64
British Columbia 27 0 1010 50
Manitoba 2 0 166 4
New Brunswick 0 0 162 8
Newfoundland and Labrador 0 0 274 18
Northwest Territories 0 0 46 1
Nova Scotia 0 0 272 6
Nunavut 0 0 6 0
Ontario n/a 1 1427 102
Prince Edward Island 0 0 49 0
Quebec 1 0 2490 81
Saskatchewan 0 0 44 11
Yukon 0 0 15 3
Canada 31 1 7108 348

Information courtesy of the Public Health Agency of Canada.
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