Operational tool to estimate the burden of other respiratory viruses

Overview

The document “Operational tool to estimate the burden of other respiratory viruses” serves as a supplement to the WHO publication “A manual for estimating disease burden associated with seasonal influenza”. It provides public health officials and researchers with a methodology that leverages severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) data, routinely collected through influenza surveillance programmes, to estimate the burden of respiratory viruses other than influenza. Developed as an extension of the WHO manual, this operational tool cites, where appropriate, relevant section numbers from the WHO manual.