Overview of Influenza Surveillance in the United States [2005]

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Influenza Division.
• Description:
  The Influenza Branch at CDC collects and reports information on influenza activity in the United States each week from October through May. The U.S. influenza surveillance system has 7 different components that allow CDC to:
  
  • Find out when and where influenza activity is occurring
  
  • Determine what type of influenza viruses are circulating
  
  • Detect changes in the influenza viruses
  
  • Track influenza-related illness
  
  • Measure the impact influenza is having on deaths in the United States
  
  flu-surveillance_cdc2005.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Influenza, Human/epidemiology Public Health Surveillance
• Series:
  Influenza Surveillance Report
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  3 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/42317/cdc_42317_DS1.pdf
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