Italy has passed its yearly influenza
peak, which this year has been the highest on record, according
to the latest bulletin of the RespiVirNet surveillance system of
the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Italy's Higher Health
Institute.
The flu season has passed its peak and the number of cases has
begun to fall, said the ISS bulletin.
In the first week of the year, there were almost 980 thousand
flu-like syndromes, about 100 thousand fewer than seven days
earlier, when the seasonal peak was recorded with an incidence
of 18.3 cases per 1,000 inhabitants, a record value never
reached in previous seasons.
"Sustained circulation is strongly likely also in the coming
weeks," warned Anna Teresa Palamara, head of Infectious Diseases
at the ISS.
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