Health Alerts

Influenza activity across the globe remains low, however in its Jan 4 update, the WHO did note that notifications of predominately influenza A(H3N2) were still be received from both Laos and Vietnam. In West Africa, there were ‘detections of influenza A(H3N2) and B in Burkina Faso and Ghana, influenza B (Victoria lineage) in Guinea and influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in Togo’. In summary, the WHO advised that influenza activity remained at lower levels than expected for this time of the year, ‘despite continued or even increased testing for influenza in some countries’. Read More