After all the media coverage of Swine Flu had died down, I thought it would be appropriate to have a look at the current status of the Influenza H1N1 pandemic.
Once I got hold of the relevant data, it was clear that H1N1 had two major peaks in terms of cases in India, one was in mid September, 2009 and another in late December, 2009. There after the incidence of new cases has diminished considerably though still occurring.
In the last update of WHO that I could get hold of, 18097 deaths have been reported from over 214 countries. This was on 16th May 2010.
In India, as of 11th May 2010, there has been 31837 lab confirmed cases, with 1511 deaths. The highest number of cases occurred in December 2009. 7708 lab confirmed cases with 382 deaths. The overall case fatality rate in India is 4.75%.
Now with the data available, I did some calculations.
Month | Cases | Deaths | Case Fatality Rate |
September 2009 | 6017 | 177 | 2.94% |
October 2009 | 3464 | 140 | 4.04% |
November 2009 | 4290 | 96 | 2.23% |
December 2009 | 7708 | 382 | 4.96% |
January 2010 | 1917 | 245 | 12.78% |
February 2010 | 847 | 121 | 14.29% |
March 2010 | 545 | 81 | 14.86% |
April 2010 | 400 | 42 | 10.5% |
As we can see, there has been a jump in the case fatality rate since December 2009 though the number of cases has decreased considerably. What may be the cause of these? As of now, I could not find any answers. May be I have to search a lot more.
There have been 289 cases of oseltamivir resistant H1N1 influenza as reported by WHO till 12th May 2010. Now that’s something every one should watch out for.
Sources:
- Situational Update on H1N1 http://mohfw-h1n1.nic.in/documents/PDF/EpidemiologicalTrendsInIndia.pdf
- WHO-Pandemic Influenza H1N1 update 101 http://www.who.int/csr/don/2010_05_21/en/index.html
- Consolidated status of Influenza A H1N1 11th May 2010 http://mohfw-h1n1.nic.in/documents/PDF/SituationalUpdatesArchives/may2010/Situational%20Updates%20on%2011.05.2010.pdf
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