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- 6 de Ene, 2019
In Europe , samples from a certain number of respiratory cases from centres in each country are sent to ECDC so that they can monitor which strains are circulating in the population and plan accordingly. This network (EISN) is pretty effective. The global version is GISN.As for the ones saying last years flu outbreak was a coronavirus. It is possible,
I don’t know if samples are archived physically but it would be interesting to comb through the data and see if there was a drop in percentage samples testing positive for influenza at the same time as a rise in confirmed cases and respiratory cases generally. i.e rise in respiratory illness with no associated known cause. Any new significant respiratory illness should be detectable even if it wasn’t characterised simply because there’d be more people presenting with acute respiratory symptoms but they wouldn’t be testing positive for a flu strain.
Someone will be doing this as we speak, I imagine.
Edited to correct amusing autocorrect
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