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Influenza in the United Kingdom 1977–1981

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2010

M. S. Pereira  and
P. Chakraverty
M. S. Pereira
Affiliation:
Virus Reference Laboratory, Central Public Health Laboratory, Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5HT
P. Chakraverty
Affiliation:
Virus Reference Laboratory, Central Public Health Laboratory, Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5HT
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The laboratory surveillance of influenza in the UK has continued to demonstrate the regularity of influenza outbreaks each winter even in the absence of increase in the other indices which reflect the morbidity and mortality associated with influenza.

The period of five years from 1976 to 1981 has seen the appearance of a second sub-type of influenza A with the return of the historic H1N1 virus; and the continued circulation of H3N2 concurrently with H1N1 virus. Variants of both these influenza A viruses have been demonstrated as well as further changes in the strains of influenza B virus isolated during this time.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 88 , Issue 3 , June 1982 , pp. 501 - 512
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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