H1N1 Influenza Center
From the Publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine
Polls
Which name for the new virus do you prefer?
- H1N1 Influenza A Virus (64.0%, 4,637 Votes)
- Swine Flu Virus (19.0%, 1,359 Votes)
- Swine-Origin Influenza A (H1N1) Virus (18.0%, 1,300 Votes)
Total Voters: 7,296
Loading ...In your view, has the level of public reaction to the influenza outbreak been appropriate?
- No, there has been overreaction (44.0%, 2,446 Votes)
- Yes (36.0%, 1,989 Votes)
- No, insufficient attention has been paid (19.0%, 1,064 Votes)
Total Voters: 5,499
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Information Technology and Global Surveillance of Cases of 2009 H1N1 Influenza
SPECIAL REPORT
Information Technology and Global Surveillance of Cases of 2009 H1N1 Influenza
J.S. Brownstein and Others
Although formal reporting, surveillance, and response structures remain essential to protecting public health, a new generation of freely accessible, online, and real-time informatics tools for disease tracking are expanding the ability of public health professionals to detect weak signals across borders and to raise earlier warnings of emerging disease threats.
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Tagged as: epidemiology, public health preparedness, surveillance