Hong Kong (HKSAR) - The spokesman for the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health said today (January 10) that the CHP has been closely monitoring global and local influenza activity.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the influenza season in the US has arrived earlier than in previous years. The predominant circulating virus in the US so far has been influenza A(H3N2) (A/Victoria/361/2011-like), followed by influenza B (B/Wisconsin/1/2010-like of the Yamagata lineage and the Victoria lineage) and influenza A (H1N1)2009 (A/California/7/2009-like). Most of these viruses characterised are well matched with the component of this season's trivalent influenza vaccine and they were susceptible to oseltamivir and zanamivir.
According to the World Health Organization, many countries in North America, Europe, North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean have reported increasing influenza activity over the past weeks... http://7thspace.com/headlines/429809/chp_closely_monitoring_global_and_local_influenza_activity.html
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