I was wondering about the reasons for the decline in Influenza in
England and Wales since 2000.
http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=651
are there such graphs for other countries ?
is there such a decline in other countries ?
I can build tables for each season here:
http://www.eiss.org/html/tables.html
but not computer-readable, not for many seasons 1990-2007 simultaneously
the graph ends with 2005/7 but I think it continued for 2006/7 and 2007/8.
You see also a smaller trend in decline from 1980-1990.
This is not seen in other countries, e.g. USA,
It could be due to some difference in methods of data-collecting/processing ?
http://magictour.free.fr/panflu/aefu.gif
(USA,F,AUS: deaths - ENG:clinical cases)
http://magictour.free.fr/panflu/eiss0.GIF
With the threat of a flu pandemic in the future, I think it would be important to examine this chart. What is happening in England to make influenza drop off so greatly after 2000? '98 looks a litttle unusual, too.
http://pic90.picturetrail.com/VOL2182/2086318/18111871/319359471.jpg
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