Higher all-cause mortality in children during autumn 2009 compared with the three previous years: pooled results from eight European countries

A Mazick; B Gergonne; F Wuillaume; K Danis; A Vantarakis; H Uphoff; G Spiteri; T van 't Klooster; C Junker; M Holmberg; K Mølbak

doi:10.2807/ese.15.05.19480-en

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Higher all-cause mortality in children during autumn 2009 compared with the three previous years: pooled results from eight European countries

A Mazick¹, B Gergonne^1,2, F Wuillaume³, K Danis⁴, A Vantarakis⁵, H Uphoff⁶, G Spiteri⁷, T van 't Klooster⁸, C Junker⁹, M Holmberg², K Mølbak¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark ² The National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen), Stockholm, Sweden ³ Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium ⁴ Department for Surveillance and Intervention, Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Greece ⁵ Department of Public Health, Medical School, University of Patras, Greece ⁶ Hessisches Landesprüfungs- und Untersuchungsamt im Gesundheitswesen, Dillenburg, Germany ⁷ Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Unit, Department of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Msida, Malta ⁸ Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM, National Institute for Public Health and Environment), Bilthoven, Netherlands ⁹ Federal Statistical Office, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

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Citation style for this article: Mazick A, Gergonne B, Wuillaume F, Danis K, Vantarakis A, Uphoff H, Spiteri G, van 't Klooster T, Junker C, Holmberg M, Mølbak K. Higher all-cause mortality in children during autumn 2009 compared with the three previous years: pooled results from eight European countries. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(5):pii=19480. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.15.05.19480-en Received: 02 Feb 2010

Abstract

The paper describes weekly fluctuations of all-cause mortality observed in eight European countries during the period between week 27 and 51, 2009, in comparison with three previous years. Our preliminary data show that the mortality reported during the 2009 influenza pandemic did not reach levels normally seen during seasonal influenza epidemics. However, there was a cumulative excess mortality of 77 cases (1 per 100,000 population) in 5-14-year-olds, and possibly also among 0-4-year-olds.