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Volume 16, Number 5—May 2010
Research

Influenza Outbreaks during World Youth Day 2008 Mass Gathering

Christopher C. Blyth1Comments to Author , Hong Foo, Sebastiaan J. van Hal, Aeron C. Hurt, Ian G. Barr, Kenneth McPhie, Paul K. Armstrong, William D. Rawlinson, Vicky Sheppeard, Stephen Conaty, Michael Staff, Dominic E. Dwyer, on behalf of the World Youth Day 2008 Influenza Study Group2
Author affiliations: Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (C.C. Blyth, H. Foo, S.J. van Hal, K. McPhie, D.E. Dwyer); WHO Collaborating Centre for Influenza Reference and Research, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (A.C. Hurt, I.G. Barr); New South Wales Department of Health, Sydney (P.K. Armstrong); Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney (W.D. Rawlinson); Sydney West Public Health Unit, Paramatta, New South Wales, Australia (V. Sheppeard); Sydney South West Public Health Unit, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia (S. Conaty); North Sydney Central Coast Public Health Unit, Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia (M. Staff)

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Figure 2

Relative effects of different influenza viruses before (pre) and after (post) World Youth Day 2008 for A) Australia; B) Western Australia; C) South Australia and Northern Territory; D) Queensland; E) New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory; and F) Victoria and Tasmania. The size of each pie chart is approximately proportional to the number of virus isolates analyzed from each region.

Figure 2. Relative effects of different influenza viruses before (pre) and after (post) World Youth Day 2008 for A) Australia; B) Western Australia; C) South Australia and Northern Territory; D) Queensland; E) New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory; and F) Victoria and Tasmania. The size of each pie chart is approximately proportional to the number of virus isolates analyzed from each region.

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1Current affiliation: University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.

2Other members of the World Youth Day Study Group: V. Sintchenko, G.L. Gilbert (Westmead Hospital); N. Komadina, R. Shaw (WHO Collaborating Centre for Influenza):S. Adamson, J. Fizzell (New South Wales Health–Biopreparedness Centre); P.M. Fennell, F. Ba Alawi (Prince of Wales Hospital); S. Corbett, K. Weston, G. Truman, O. Nguyen, J. Paterson, S. Gabriel, C. Moreira, B. Forssman (Sydney West Public Health Unit); M. Cretikos, P. Maywood, V. Bowden, C. Lowbridge (Sydney South West Public Health Unit); and S. Williams, M. Torres, L. Heron (North Sydney Central Coast Public Health Unit).

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