Mortality and morbidity burden associated with A/H1N1pdm influenza virus: Who is likely to be infected, experience clinical symptoms, or die from the H1N1pdm 2009 pandemic virus ?

Mark Miller; Cecile Viboud; Lone Simonsen; Donald R Olson; Colin Russell

doi:10.1371/currents.RRN1013

Mortality and morbidity burden associated with A/H1N1pdm influenza virus: Who is likely to be infected, experience clinical symptoms, or die from the H1N1pdm 2009 pandemic virus ?

PLoS Curr. 2009 Aug 26:1:RRN1013. doi: 10.1371/currents.RRN1013.

Authors

Mark Miller¹, Cecile Viboud, Lone Simonsen, Donald R Olson, Colin Russell

Affiliation

¹ National Institutes of Health; Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; Department of Global Health, George Washington University, School of Public Health and Health Services, DC; International Society for Disease Surveillace and University of Cambridge & Fogarty International Center - NIH.

Abstract

Here we use lessons from past influenza pandemics and recent information about the H1N1pdm pandemic to discuss variations in H1N1pdm disease burden with age, underlying risk factors, and geography.