The 2023 flu is moving fast in Italy: 630 thousand infections in the last weekto (November 27 – December 3) and are almost 3 million Italians affected since the beginning of epidemic surveillance. “The number of cases of influenza-like syndromes (Ili) continues to increase in Italy. In the 48th week (27 November – 3 December), the incidence is equal to 10.7 cases per thousand assisted (9.3 in the previous week It is underlined that Various respiratory viruses, not just influenza, contribute to this increase“, highlights the latest RespiVirNet epidemiological report published by the ISS. In the week monitored by the report, “the estimated cases of flu-like syndrome, compared to the entire Italian population, are approximately 630,000, for a total of approximately 2,946,000 cases starting from the beginning of surveillance”.
“The incidence increases in all age groups, but they appear children under the age of five are most affected in which the incidence is equal to 24.7 cases per thousand assisted (18.5 in the previous week). Last season in this same week the incidence in children under five years was equal to 49.2 thousand assisted cases”, records the report. In the other age groups, the incidence reaches 11.41 (15-64 years) and among individuals aged 65 and over at 6.33 cases per thousand assisted”, concludes the report.
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