Table 1. Summary of burden of influenza among children in Europe.

Country	Outpatient incidencea (age 0–4 y)	N/rate of hospitalizations	Number of deaths	Influenza vaccine recommendations
England	354 per 100,000 (2002–2008) [Paget et al., 2010]2	144 per 100,000; age < 6 y (2001–2002) [Nicholson et al., 2006]5	n = 70; age < 18 y (June 2009–March 2010) [Sachedina and Donaldson, 2010]6	Children aged ≥ 6 mo with underlying medical conditions
France	NR	n = 226; age < 14 y (July–November 2009) [Fuhrman et al., 2010]7	n = 5; age < 15 y (July–November 2009) [Fuhrman et al., 2010]7	Children aged ≥ 6 mo with underlying medical conditions
Germany	NR	123 per 100,000; age 0–3 y (1999–2001) [Forster et al., 2004]8	n = 4; age < 15 y (2009) [Federal Health Monitoring, 2010b]9	Children aged ≥ 6 mo with underlying medical conditions
Italy	9,229 per 100,000 (2002–2008) [Paget et al., 2010]2	n = 63; age ≤ 15 y (August–December 2009) [Calitri et al., 2010]10	NR	Children aged ≥ 6 mo with underlying medical conditions
The Netherlands	925 per 100,000 (2002–2008) [Paget et al., 2010]2	62.7 per 100,000 (non-ICU); age 0–5 y (June–December 2009) [van’t Klooster et al., 2010]11	n = 14; age 0–14 y (Jun–Dec, 2009) [van’t Klooster et al., 2010]11	Children aged ≥ 6 mo with underlying medical conditions
Spain	2,156 per 100,000 (2002–2008) [Paget et al., 2010]2	4.1 per 1000; < 6 mo (2001–2004) [Montes et al., 2005]12	n = 41; age 5–14 y (weeks 46–48, 2009) [Leon-Gomez et al., 2010]13	Children aged ≥ 6 mo with underlying medical conditions
Finland	179 per 1000b age 0–3 y (2000–2002) [Heikkinen et al., 2004]14	276 per 100,000; age < 6 mo; 173 per 100,000; age 6–11 mo (1988–2004) [Silvennoinen et al., 2011]15	n = 2; age ≤ 16 y (1998–2004) [Silvennoinen et al., 2011]15	All children aged 1–3 y