{"id":37984,"date":"2020-07-31T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/seasonal-flu-reports-hit-record-lows-amid-global-social-distancing\/"},"modified":"2020-07-31T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T14:02:00","slug":"seasonal-flu-reports-hit-record-lows-amid-global-social-distancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/seasonal-flu-reports-hit-record-lows-amid-global-social-distancing\/","title":{"rendered":"#Seasonal flu reports hit record lows amid global social distancing"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Seasonal flu reports hit record lows amid global social<\/a> distancing<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 31, 2020 |<\/span> 10:02am <\/p>\n

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\n BEIJING \u2013 Global social distancing rules targeting coronavirus have pushed influenza infection rates to a record low, early figures show, signaling that the measures are having an unprecedented impact on other communicable diseases.<\/p>\n

In China, where the earliest wide-scale lockdown measures began, new reports of diseases including mumps, measles and some sexually transmitted diseases, have declined significantly, though influenza cases have seen the sharpest drop-off.<\/p>\n

Infections reported monthly by the county\u2019s health ministry have dropped by over 90 percent since the beginning of the lockdown, from an average of around 290,000 cases a month to 23,000.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s flu surveillance system also reported \u201cexceptionally low levels\u201d of influenza in a recent report, as did other countries that report weekly flu surveillance statistics including the UK and Australia.<\/p>\n

In its most recent weekly report, South Korea\u2019s infectious disease portal reported an 83 percent decrease in cases from the same period a year earlier.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen the lowest ever rates of other viral infection admissions for this time of year,\u201d said Ben Marais, an expert in infectious disease at the University of Sydney and clinician at the children\u2019s unit at Westmead Hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe normally have wards full of children with wheezy chests at this time of year, in winter\u2026but this year the wards are essentially empty,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates there are some 3-5 million severe illnesses and up to 500,000 deaths annually linked to seasonal influenza globally.<\/p>\n

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\nWhile experts say the drop in influenza infections has reduced the strain on healthcare systems and lowered the number of influenza fatalities, there\u2019s also concern that the unprecedented drop in cases could have a negative impact on immunity levels in following seasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt may be that if we don\u2019t have infections this season there will be more vulnerable people next season, that is definitely something that we will have to carefully monitor,\u201d said Marais. \u201cThis season passed us by, it seems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lower numbers of some infectious diseases could also be linked to reduced reporting rates.<\/p>\n

The WHO said in a recent report that influenza surveillance figures should be \u201cinterpreted with caution,\u201d due to the limited capacity for reporting in some countries during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

The impact of the lockdown on other diseases with a longer onset period, including HIV and Tuberculosis, may not be clear for years to come.<\/p>\n

In China, new cases of mumps dropped by around 70 percent and measles by over 90 percent since the lockdown.<\/p>\n

There was an average of around 7,500 gonorrhea cases reported per month since the lockdown, down from 12,100 a month in 2019.<\/p>\n

Hepatitis, which last year infected some 1.2 million Chinese people according to the reporting system, was down by over 20 percent in the same period.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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