As cooler weather settles in and the season for sniffles and sore throats looms, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention won’t be tracking the pattern of this year’s flu.
The government shutdown has furloughed much of the CDC staff, and FluView, the department’s weekly Influenza surveillance reports, is frozen.
In the shadow of the shutdown, a few online flu trackers — which usually serve as supplements to the CDC’s official reports — continue to monitor the illness when the agency cannot.
Flu Near You, a health site that tracks the flu through user-submitted symptoms, has seen a 100% rise in activity, according to Clark Freifeld and John Brownstein, who cofounded HealthMap, the program that started Flu Near You Read more…
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