There have been 254,485 notifications of laboratory confirmed influenza reported to the NNDSS in the year to 9 November 2026.
With a population of 27 million, that’s one in 100.
The reason it’s 1 in 100 in this country, and 1 in 8 worldwide, is because of our great healthcare system and protective social determinants of health, like nutrition and daily hygiene.
Since this is Lemmy, I assumed most people commenting would be from rich countries like Australia, so an Australian statistic would have better applicability to this population than a global statistic.
1 in 200? No. Funny how the ones who don’t provide sources are the ones who spread nonsense.
1 Billion people a year get it. That is roughly 1 in 8.
Of these 3-5 million get severe illness, and out of that you get roughly 300-600k deaths.
Oh, you know what? I misread the statistics site and read NSW’s rate as the entire country’s. It’s actually around one in 100
https://immunisationcoalition.org.au/influenza-statistics/
With a population of 27 million, that’s one in 100.
The reason it’s 1 in 100 in this country, and 1 in 8 worldwide, is because of our great healthcare system and protective social determinants of health, like nutrition and daily hygiene.
Since this is Lemmy, I assumed most people commenting would be from rich countries like Australia, so an Australian statistic would have better applicability to this population than a global statistic.