Australian flu 2022: it’s a record in Italy. The numbers and the symptoms

Australian flu 2022: it’s a record in Italy. The numbers and the symptoms
Australian flu 2022: it’s a record in Italy. The numbers and the symptoms

High fever, exhaustion and lack of appetite, the Australian is knocking out the Italians and is a record since 2009

Riccardo Cristilli

09 December

Record flu in this end of 2022. Ahead of expert forecasts, the flu is putting several compatriots to bed weakened by flu states ranging from milder to more acute forms. And according to data from the InfluNet surveillance network of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) in the week from 28 November to 4 December, as many as 943 thousand Italians infected from flu-like illnesses.

Since tracking started are 3.5 million people infected by Australiana, as this AH3N2 flu syndrome has been called as it was identified in Australia. The epidemic curve shows an anticipated growth trend compared to previous seasons, obviously without considering 2020 and 2021 when the masks and the lockdown for the Covid-19 had slowed down the flu race.

Record flu since 2009

The current incidence of influenza in the Italian population is 16 cases per 1000 inhabitants. A figure that records the record since the peak of 2009. However, it must be highlighted that there are also other respiratory viruses that are causing the figure to grow with the Australian being diagnosed in 41% of the cases analysed. The regions most affected are Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia – Romagna, Marche, Umbria and Abruzzo.

THE the most affected at the moment are children in the under 5 age group where the incidence is 50.2 cases per thousand assisted. At the exact opposite are the over 65 years old, also because it is the group of the population most vaccinated against the flu, but also the one that more than the others still wears a mask in the situations most at risk. It is no coincidence that the pediatricians of the SIP (Italian Society of Pediatrics) have appealed to families to vaccinate children between 6 months and 6 years of age. “The frail of all ages and the elderly in the family are also protected, in view of the Holidays it is a factor not to be overlooked” reads the note from the pediatricians.

australian flu symptoms

THE Australian flu symptoms which has reached record numbers in Italy, are typical of the flu. Fever which in some cases can also be very high and rise rapidly, chills, headache, sore throat, body aches, nasal congestion. In infants, vomiting and diarrhea are also recorded. The epidemiologist Giovanni Rezza in a recent interview with Corriere della Sera he explained how to deal with the disease one must use antipyretics to lower the temperature, drink a lot, rest and above all not use antibiotics “unless indicated by the doctor”. Rezza invites not to crowd the pediatric emergency rooms “let’s not be alarmed” in front of high fever, she added. Also from her an invitation to the vaccination that can be done together with the fourth anti-Covid dose.

09 December 2022 – 19:14

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