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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

WHO: Global Influenza Update #265 North America's late arriving and unusually mild flu season is essentially over, but in the southern hemisphere influenza activity continues to ramp up - particularly in parts of  Central and South America.

In the tropics flu is pretty much a year-round low-level threat, although it often surges during the rainy season.

While we've seen reports (see An Early Start To South America's Flu Season?) of increased flu activity in parts of South America, so far we've seen no indication of anything other than that an early, and active, H1N1 season has arrived.

Today's report from the WHO - current as of the end of May - seems to bear that out.

Influenza update - 265

13 June 2016, - Update number 265, based on data up to 29 May, 2016


Influenza activity in the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere continued to decrease to inter-seasonal levels. In temperate countries in the southern hemisphere, influenza activity started to increase in South America and South Africa, but remained low overall in most of Oceania.

Posted by Michael Coston at 8:45 AM