Most swine flu cases here in Iceland for the past days and weeks have been diagnosed in young children between 0-9 years old. This is a noticeable change from July and August where most of those who got sick were between 15-30 years old. This was included in the documents which Gudrun Sigmundsdottir senior physician of the office of the contamination surgeon general has collected. In the announcement from the surgeon general says on the other hand that the cases in the age group 15-30 is reducing.

The numbers from the virus department of Landspitali hospital and the absense registry of the elementary school in Mentor also show this increase of cases for children. The absense of students in the elementary schools of the country increased greatly in October.

During the regular phone conference of the representatives of civil defence and the health system this morning came out certain clues about the influensa epidemic has probably reached the peak in the capital area, in Akureyri and more locations, according to the announcement from the contamination surgeon general. In other locations around the countryside is said that the situation is similar as was the week before but in certain locations is the epidemic still reaching its peak, for instance in Husavik. The employees of the health centers see obvious signs of that there are more children getting ill now than before.

In Landspitali this morning were forty three patients with the influenza, there of eleven in the intensive care unit. Eight were hospitalized because of the flu but no one was released. In the hospital in Akureyri are three influenza patients this moment, but none of them are in the intensive care unit.

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