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CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 51, Issue 10, Pages 1184-1191Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1086/656740
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- Government of the Hong Kong SAR [PHE-20, PHE-2]
- Hong Kong University Grants Committee [AoE/M-12/06]
- Harvard Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics from the US National Institutes of Health [1 U54 GM088558]
- EMPERIE (EU) [223498]
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- National Institutes of Health [HHSN266200700005C, N01-AI-70005]
- Medical Research Council [G0600719B] Funding Source: researchfish
- National Institute for Health Research [NF-SI-0508-10252] Funding Source: researchfish
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Background. Serial cross-sectional data on antibody levels to the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza A virus from a population can be used to estimate the infection attack rates and immunity against future infection in the community. Methods. From April through December 2009, we obtained 12,217 serum specimens from blood donors (aged 16-59 years), 2520 specimens from hospital outpatients (aged 5-59 years), and 917 specimens from subjects involved in a community pediatric cohort study (aged 5-14 years). We estimated infection attack rates by comparing the proportions of specimens with antibody titers >= 1:40 by viral microneutralization before and after the first wave of the pandemic. Estimates were validated using paired serum samples from 324 individuals that spanned the first wave. Combining these estimates with epidemiologic surveillance data, we calculated the proportion of infections that led to hospitalization, admission to the intensive care unit (ICU), and death. Results. We found that 3.3% and 14% of persons aged 5-59 years had antibody titers >= 1:40 before and after the first wave, respectively. The overall attack rate was 10.7%, with age stratification as follows: 43.4% in persons aged 5-14 years, 15.8% in persons aged 15-19 years, 11.8% in persons aged 20-29 years, and 4%-4.6% in persons aged 30-59 years. Case-hospitalization rates were 0.47%-0.87% among persons aged 5-59 years. Case-ICU rates were 7.9 cases per 100,000 infections in persons aged 5-14 years and 75 cases per 100,000 infections in persons aged 50-59 years, respectively. Case-fatality rates were 0.4 cases per 100,000 infections in persons aged 5-14 years and 26.5 cases per 100,000 infections in persons aged 50-59 years, respectively. Conclusions. Almost half of all school-aged children in Hong Kong were infected during the first wave. Compared with school children aged 5-14 years, older adults aged 50-59 years had 9.5 and 66 times higher risks of ICU admission and death if infected, respectively.
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