Population-level susceptibility, severity and spread of pandemic influenza: design of, and initial results from, a pre-pandemic and hibernating pandemic phase study using cross-sectional data from the Health Survey for England (HSE)

• Published in: Public health research (Southampton, England) Vol. 3; no. 6; pp. 1 - 24
• Main Authors: Fragaszy, Ellen B, Quinlivan, Mark, Breuer, Judith, Craig, Rachel, Hutchings, Stephanie, Kidd, Michael, Mindell, Jennifer, Hayward, Andrew C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: NIHR Journals Library 01.06.2015
• Subjects: data collection; epidemiology; health surveys; human; influenza; pandemics; public health; serology; surveillance

Background Assessing severity and spread of a novel influenza strain at the start of a pandemic is critical for informing a targeted and proportional response. It requires community-level studies to estimate the burden of infection and disease. Rapidly initiating such studies in a pandemic is diffic...