Distribution of influenza and other acute respiratory viruses during the first year after the 2009–2010 influenza pandemic in the English‐ and Dutch‐speaking Caribbean countries

Background Limited specimen collection and testing for influenza occurred in the English and Dutch‐speaking Caribbean countries prior to the 2009/2010 influenza pandemic. Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (CAREC) member countries rapidly mobilized to collect specimens during the pandemic and a vast majority of confirmed cases during the pandemic period were influenza A(H1N1)pdm09. Objectives To describe the aetiology and distribution of acute respiratory illness (ARI) among laboratory confirmed cases during the first year after the 2009/2010 influenza pandemic in the English‐ and Dutch‐speaking Ca... Mehr ...