Smokescreens - Part 3

Influenza deaths

As we have seen, the 10th revision of the International Classification of Disease (ICD) is used to code events. The series of codes which interest us are the J codes:

ICD Code

• J09  Influenza due to certain identified influenza virus

• J10 Influenza due to other identified influenza virus 

• J11 Influenza, virus not identified 

• J12 Viral pneumonia not elsewhere c…