The number of children with pneumonia continues to rise. In week 47 (20-26 November) there are 130 per 100,000 children aged 5-14 years with pneumonia, compared to 108 per 100,000 the week before. And the increase also continues among 0 to 4-year-olds, from 155 (13-19 November) to 164 per 100,000 (20-26 November). To gain a better understanding of the cause of the pneumonias, Nivel will ask general practitioners to send additional throat and nose samples to the RIVM. This concerns samples from children aged 0-14 years with pneumonia. In the laboratory, RIVM then examines which viruses and bacteria are in the samples.
Every Wednesday afternoon, Nivel reports the current figures for diseases per week. Explaining the reported figures requires further research, which we do not offer on a weekly basis.
Nivel figures for pneumonia week 47 (20-26 Nov) 2023: what stands out?
Since week 31 (early August), more patients with pneumonia have been visiting their GP than in previous years. We also look at years before the corona pandemic. There are a striking number of children and young people with pneumonia. In week 47 (20-26 November), the number of children aged 5 to 14 years with pneumonia increased to 130 per 100,000 children. At its peak last year, there were 58 per 100,000 children. General practitioners also see more pneumonia in the group of young people between 15 and 24 years old than in previous years. In week 47 this number increased further to 38 per 100,000. In young children (0-4 years), the number of pneumonias has been increasing since week 38 (18-24 September), but the figures are lower than in the years before the corona pandemic. Relatively speaking, pneumonia is most common in older adults, as in previous years. However, in week 47 we see a slight decrease in the number of people aged 65 or older with pneumonia.
More current weekly figures for pneumonia and other diseases in pictures
All weekly pneumonia figures (all age groups, pneumonia throughout the years):
open the Nivel Surveillance Bulletin wk 47 under section 2.7 Pneumonia. What is currently prevailing in the Netherlands? Pneumonia, whooping cough, flu, scabies, something else:
go to Current disease figures per week for the online summary with the most striking findings, or: An up-to-date overview of all identified conditions:
open the Nivel Surveillance Bulletin wk 47, go to a disease via the table of contents (in the front, after the summary). Get everything you need to know about flu (flu figures, flu season, flu epidemic, FAQs and more):
go to Flu Central. Results of Nivel research with (among others) Nivel figures on diseases:
go to Publications – using figures from Nivel Primary Care Registers.
2023-12-01 11:41:42
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