WHO: Flu levels have plummeted 95% to their lowest in 130 years

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Flu levels have plummeted 95% to their lowest in 130 years, figures suggest
Ellen Manning 2 days ago

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Simon de Lusignan, professor of primary care at the University of Oxford and director of the Royal College of GPs research and surveillance centre, said influenza had now been “almost completely wiped out”. John McCauley, director of the World Health Organisation's collaborating centre for reference and research on influenza, told the newspaper: “The last time we had evidence of such low rates was when we were still just counting influenza deaths, and that was in 1888, before the 1889-90 flu pandemic.”

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reported that in the second week of January, the number of flu-like illnesses reported to GPs was just 1.1 per 100,000 compared to a five-year average rate of 27 per 100,000.

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Experts told the newspaper that the coronavirus pandemic could have contributed to plummeting levels of flu cases with improved hygiene and measures taken to combat the COVID crisis helping limit the spread of flu.

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Sir Simon told the Health and Social Care Committee: “it would be great if the Covid vaccine and flu vaccine ends up being combined into a single vaccine, which we might see if not this winter but future winters as well”.

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