Descriptive epidemiology of school outbreaks of seasonal influenza B during 2012/2013 in the Thames Valley, United Kingdom

Public Health. 2014 Dec;128(12):1121-4. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2014.08.016. Epub 2014 Nov 25.

Authors

L J McCann¹, O Suchanek², N D McCarthy², T Mannes²

Affiliations

¹ Thames Valley Public Health England Centre, Public Health England, Didcot, United Kingdom; Field Epidemiology Training Programme, Public Health England, United Kingdom; European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address: lucymccann@nhs.net.
² Thames Valley Public Health England Centre, Public Health England, Didcot, United Kingdom.

PMID: 25443101
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2014.08.016

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Absenteeism
Disease Outbreaks*
Humans
Influenza B virus / isolation & purification*
Influenza, Human / epidemiology*
Schools*
Seasons
United Kingdom / epidemiology