Table 6.

Mortality related to influenza

Country	Period	Age group	Mortality per 100,000	Method	Reference
West Germany Germany	1984/85-1994/95 1990/91-2000/01	All	16.1 (range: 2.2;35.7) 17.4 (range: 5.9;44.2)	All cause	Zucs 2005 [28]
USA	1972/73-2002/03	All	65.0 (range: 0;134.2) 72.4 (range11.7;144.7)	All cause	Thompson 2009 [3]
Canada	1997-2000 2000-2004	All	15,6 5.8 (vaccination)	All cause	Kwong 2008 [12]
Italy	1969-2001	All	23.4 (H3N2)/7.4 (H1N1)	All cause	Rizzo 2007 [6]
Canada	1989/90-1998/99	All	13.1	All cause	Schanzer 2007 [27]
South Africa USA	1998-2005 1997/98-2004/05	65+	340 112	All cause	Cohen 2010 [7]
Czech Republic	1982/83-1999/00	65+	26.0 (range: -8.9;60.4)	All cause	Kyncl 2005 [30]
Netherlands	1992-1996 1996-2003	65+	131 (95% CI: 123-139) 105 (95% CI: 99-111) (vaccination)	All cause	Jansen 2008 [31]
Hong Kong	1996-1999	65+	93.2 (95% CI: 78.4-107.7) 136.1 (95% CI: 83.7-188.4)	All cause	Wong 2004 [15]
Portugal	2008/09	65+	18	All cause	Nogueira 2009 [8]
Switzerland	1969/70-1998/99 1988/89-1998/99	60+	67.2 (range: 20.9;209,5) 152.8 (range: 66.3;293.3) 69.5 (range: 32.6;234,5) 187.1 (range: 121.0;356.0) 115.3 (range: 60.6;226.9)	All cause	Brinkhof 2006 [9]
Netherlands	1967-1989	60+	82	All cause	Sprenger 1993 [32]
USA	1976/77-2006/07	All	9.0 (range: 1.4;16.7) 2.4 (range: 0.4;5.1)	RC PI	MMWR 2010 [25]
Italy	1969-2001	All	4.5 (H3N2)/0.8 (H1N1)	PI	Rizzo 2007 [6]
USA France Australia	1972-1997	All	2.6 (range: 0;6.3) 3.9 (range: 0;18.3) 1.3 (range: 0;7.5)	PI	Viboud 2004 [4]
South Africa USA	1998-2005 1997/98-2004/05	65+	42 22	PI	Cohen 2010 [7]
Hong Kong	1996-1999	65+	16.7 (95% CI: 9.8-23.7) 39.3 (95% CI: 21.4-57.3)	PI	Wong 2004 [15]
France	1984-2004	65+	1.4 (range: 0;9.4)	PI	Denoeud 2007 [10]

RC: Respiratory and circulatory cause's incl. pneumonia and influenza. Vaccination: After introduction of vaccination programme