Flu Bulletin - 2017-18 - Week 48 | The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit

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Data presented are for Week 48 (November 26^th, 2017 to December 2^nd, 2017) and was extracted on December 4^th, 2017

Table 1. Assessment of Influenza activity in Windsor-Essex County for Week 48
Measure of activity	Assessment compared to previous week (Lower, Similar, Higher)	Reasoning
Laboratory-confirmed influenza cases	Higher	One laboratory-confirmed influenza case (sporadic case) reported
Influenza outbreaks	Similar	No new influenza outbreaks reported in Week 48
Influenza activity levels	Similar	No ongoing Influenza outbreaks
ILI & Respiratory ED Visits	Similar	6% of all ED visits in Week 48 were due to ILI & Resp. syndrome. This is a 10% decrease from the previous week
Overall Assessment	Similar

**Table 2. Number of laboratory confirmed influenza cases reported in Windsor-Essex County: Week 48 & 2017-18 season⁺**
	Influenza A N (avg)	Influenza B N (avg)	All Types N (avg)
Week 48	1 (1)	0 (0)	1 (1)
Season	5 (4)	1 (0)	6 (4)

⁺Average of past five completed seasons reported in brackets

Table 3. Respiratory infection outbreaks in institutions: Week 48 and Total for the 2017-18 Influenza season
Aetiologic Agent/Organism	Week 48 (%)	Season (%)
Influenza A⁺	0	1 (10%)
Parainfluenza (all types)	0	2 (20%)
No organism identified/unspecified	1 (100%)	7 (70%)
Total	1 (100%)	10 (100%)

⁺Includes combined outbreaks of Influenza and other microorganisms

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