Exploring all-cause mortality surveillance during the Iberian Peninsula power outage, Spain, 28 April 2025
A general power outage affected the Iberian Peninsula on 28 April 2025. We explored all-cause mortality in Spain using the monitoring system MoMo. Starting 28 April, over 3 days, 147 excess deaths (95% CI: − 35 to 330) appeared to occur in the country, corresponding to a 4.2% increase over expected...
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| description | A general power outage affected the Iberian Peninsula on 28 April 2025. We explored all-cause mortality in Spain using the monitoring system MoMo. Starting 28 April, over 3 days, 147 excess deaths (95% CI: − 35 to 330) appeared to occur in the country, corresponding to a 4.2% increase over expected mortality. A larger significant 7.9% increase was estimated in 65–84-year-olds (94 excess deaths; 95% CI: 63 to 125). While MoMo cannot attribute such excesses to specific causes, findings highlight the usefulness of real-time surveillance systems for assessing large-scale emergencies. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a8746471c2774ee9acaa75b199b2e9da2025-08-20T03:31:30ZengEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and ControlEurosurveillance1560-79172025-07-01302610.2807/1560-7917.ES.2025.30.26.2500405http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/eurosurveillance/30/26Exploring all-cause mortality surveillance during the Iberian Peninsula power outage, Spain, 28 April 2025Diana Gómez-Barroso0Epidemiology and Public Health Biomedical Network Research Consortium (CIBERESP), Madrid, SpainA general power outage affected the Iberian Peninsula on 28 April 2025. We explored all-cause mortality in Spain using the monitoring system MoMo. Starting 28 April, over 3 days, 147 excess deaths (95% CI: − 35 to 330) appeared to occur in the country, corresponding to a 4.2% increase over expected mortality. A larger significant 7.9% increase was estimated in 65–84-year-olds (94 excess deaths; 95% CI: 63 to 125). While MoMo cannot attribute such excesses to specific causes, findings highlight the usefulness of real-time surveillance systems for assessing large-scale emergencies.https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2025.30.26.2500405mortalitySpainPower outagesurveillanceIberian Peninsula |
| spellingShingle | Diana Gómez-Barroso Exploring all-cause mortality surveillance during the Iberian Peninsula power outage, Spain, 28 April 2025 Eurosurveillance mortality Spain Power outage surveillance Iberian Peninsula |
| title | Exploring all-cause mortality surveillance during the Iberian Peninsula power outage, Spain, 28 April 2025 |
| title_full | Exploring all-cause mortality surveillance during the Iberian Peninsula power outage, Spain, 28 April 2025 |
| title_fullStr | Exploring all-cause mortality surveillance during the Iberian Peninsula power outage, Spain, 28 April 2025 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring all-cause mortality surveillance during the Iberian Peninsula power outage, Spain, 28 April 2025 |
| title_short | Exploring all-cause mortality surveillance during the Iberian Peninsula power outage, Spain, 28 April 2025 |
| title_sort | exploring all cause mortality surveillance during the iberian peninsula power outage spain 28 april 2025 |
| topic | mortality Spain Power outage surveillance Iberian Peninsula |
| url | https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2025.30.26.2500405 |
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