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Something is very different about the season this year.
One of the great fears this year has been the so-called twin pandemic, in which there is a major flu outbreak in addition to corona. In the worst case, patients can be affected by both infections at the same time.
This is one of the reasons Norway ordered 50 percent more flu vaccines earlier this season than normal.
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Now it turns out that this year’s flu season just hasn’t started.
According to the FHI weekly influenza report, no influenza has been detected in Norway in the past two weeks.
– For week 47 there were no registered detections of the influenza virus, among a total of 3503 analyzed, writes FHI.
Nor are many cases detected in Europe in general.
– Very unusual
A total of four cases of infection have been detected in Norway during the fall season, but FHI believes that two of them may be incorrect:
– A patient in Oslo at week 45 with a probable site of infection in Central Asia, was diagnosed with influenza B virus, identified as B / Victoria at the NIPH national influenza center. The two cases detected from week 44 have now been identified as influenza A (H3), imported from Africa, and B / Victoria, imported from Central Asia, respectively. In week 42, three findings of the influenza B virus were originally reported, but two of them, after further investigation, are considered unlikely. The third finding of week 42 has also not been confirmed in the influenza center.
– It is therefore still uncertain whether there was a domestic infection with the influenza virus in Norway this autumn. It is very unusual with so few influenza findings at this time.
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There has been little flu in the world
Due to coronary interventions, this year’s flu season has not really started anywhere in the world.
– Influenza activity worldwide and for the Northern Hemisphere is lower than expected. There have been very few influenza detections in recent weeks in the reporting countries of the temperate southern hemisphere and tropical South America, while in the Central American and Caribbean countries influenza activity was only reported in Haiti.
– There is reason to believe that the various infection control and social distancing measures introduced by different countries to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2 also contribute to reducing the spread of the influenza virus.
The flu season was seen this spring come to an abrupt end when strong crown measures were introduced.
Influenza activity is reported in some countries in West Africa (Ivory Coast, Niger), East Africa (Kenya), South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan), and Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Thailand). Of the 100 influenza virus influences reported to WHO, 63% of the influences originated from influenza A, and the vast majority (88.7%) of the viruses that were subtyped showed H3. 37% of the viruses originated from influenza B, and of these, the majority (93.3%) were from Victoria B.
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