Progress and Remaining Gaps in Estimating the Global Disease Burden of Influenza
Joseph Bresee
, Julia Fitzner, Harry Campbell, Cheryl Cohen, Vanessa Cozza, Jorge Jara, Anand Krishnan, Vernon Lee,, and for the WHO Working Group on the Burden of Influenza Disease
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (J. Bresee); World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (J. Fitzner, V. Cozza); University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (H. Campbell); National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa (C. Cohen); Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala (J. Jara); All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India (A. Krishnan); Ministry of Health, Singapore (V. Lee)
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Figure. Countries with burden of disease estimates that have agreed to share data for the global estimate of influenza mortality and influenza-associated hospitalizations, as of April 2017: blue, morbidity estimates; brown, mortality estimates; green, morbidity and mortality estimates; white, data not available.
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