title: [Influenza: current status and epidemiologic situation].
abstract: In the period of 1993 to 1994, influenza activity caused by circulation of viruses antigenically structurally related to the strain A/Beijing/32/92 (H3N2) began in the countries of North America and West Europe in October-November 1993, by spreading to the countries of East Europe, the Urals, and West Siberia. Epidemic events in China and in the Far East were evoked mainly by the influenza B virus. The influenza A (H1N1) viruses did not widely spread. Single isolates (about 1% of all the influenza A virus isolates, as evidenced by the CDC, Atlanta, USA) of this subtype were etiological agents of sporadic morbidity. A fourteen-year period (1977-1991) of the epidemic activity of the influenza A (H1N1) virus seems to be over. The last epidemic of the influenza A (H3N2) virus has a moderate intensity. Among all the age-group populations, children were largely afflicted. The highest incidence in Russia was recorded in Arkhangelsk, Barnaul, Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk, Samara, and Smolensk where approximately 16-18% of children under 14 years of age and 3.5-5% of the population of 15 years or more fell ill. The highest incidence was recorded in Minsk and Vilnus too.
authors.forename: O I
authors.initials: OI
authors.lastname: Kiselev
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Sominina
authors.forename: E B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Grinbaum
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001208:Asia / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009980:Influenza A virus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology