National Influenza Annual Report, Canada, 2022-2023: Canada's first fall epidemic since the 2019-2020 season
Can Commun Dis Rep. 2023 Oct 1;49(10):413-424. doi: 10.14745/ccdr.v49i10a02. eCollection 2023 Oct 1.ABSTRACTCoinciding with the beginning of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in March 2020, Canadian seasonal influenza circulation was suppressed, which was a trend reported globally. Canada saw a brief and delayed return of community influenza circulation during the spring of the 2021-2022 influenza season. Surveillance for Canada's 2022-2023 seasonal influenza epidemic began in epidemiological week 35 (week starting August 28, 2022) and ended in epidemiological week 34 (week ending August 26, 2023). The 2022-2023 season marked the return to pre-pandemic-like influenza circulation. The epidemic began in epidemiological week 43 (week ending October 29, 2022) and lasted 10 weeks. Driven by influenza A(H3N2), the epidemic was relatively early, extraordinary in intensity, and short in length. This season, a total of 74,344 laboratory-confirmed influenza detections were reported out of 1,188,962 total laboratory tests. A total of 93% of detections were influenza A (n=68,923). Influenza A(H3N2) accounted for 89% of the subtyped specimens (n=17,638/19,876). Late-season, Canada saw community circulation of influenza B for the first time since the 2019-2020 season. The 2022-2023 influenza season in Canada had an extraordinary impact on children and youth; nearly half (n=6,194/13,729, 45%) of reported influenza A(H3N2) detections were in the paediatric (younger than 19 yea...
Source: Can Commun Dis Rep - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kara Schmidt Myriam Ben Moussa Steven Buckrell Abbas Rahal Taeyo Chestley Nathalie Bastien Liza Lee Source Type: research
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