FluTrackers is a website, online forum and early warning system which tracks and gathers information relating to a wide range of infectious diseases, including flu and assists in how to use it to inform the general public. It was co-founded by Sharon Sanders & Jeremy Walsh in 2006, initially to investigate seasonal influenza, novel influenza, and chikungunya. Later, it extended to include Ebola, Zika and drug resistant bacteria. In the first ten months of 2017, it received 18 million views.[1][2][3][4]
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Type of site | Internet forum |
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| URL | Official website |
| Launched | 2006 |
At the end of December 2019, the site began communicating early information on the outbreak of atypical pneumonia in Wuhan, later known to be due to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.[4][5][6]
References edit
- ^ Jeremy Brown (2018). Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History. New York: Atria. pp. 112–116. ISBN 978-1-5011-8124-5.
- ^ Lau, Eric HY; Zheng, Jiandong; Tsang, Tim K; Liao, Qiaohong; Lewis, Bryan; Brownstein, John S; Sanders, Sharon; Wong, Jessica Y; Mekaru, Sumiko R; Rivers, Caitlin; Wu, Peng (2014-05-28). "Accuracy of epidemiological inferences based on publicly available information: retrospective comparative analysis of line lists of human cases infected with influenza A(H7N9) in China". BMC Medicine. 12: 88. doi:10.1186/1741-7015-12-88. ISSN 1741-7015. PMC 4066833. PMID 24885692.
- ^ ASSET (17 February 2016). "Using the web to track flu and other infectious diseases". ASSET. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ^ a b Farhi, Paul (14 March 2020). "How a blogger in Florida put out an early warning about the coronavirus crisis". The Washington Post. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ Stone, Judy (11 January 2020). "Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak Shows The Importance Of Sound Science, Sleuthing, And Cooperation". Forbes. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ^ Schnirring, Lisa (9 January 2020). "More details emerge on new coronavirus in Wuhan cluster". CIDRAP. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
Further reading edit
- Prandoni, Stefano (2012). "Sudden and fulminant deaths of healthy children in Italy during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons: results of an online study". J Public Health Res. 1 (2): 184–191. doi:10.4081/jphr.2012.e29. PMC 4140362. PMID 25170463.
- Parikh, Nidhi; Daughton, Ashlynn R; Rosenberger, William Earl; Aberle, Derek Jacob; Chitanvis, Maneesha Elizabeth (2021). "Improving Detection of Disease Re-emergence Using aWeb-Based Tool (RED Alert):Design and Case Analysis Study". JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 7 (1): e24132. doi:10.2196/24132. PMC 7819778. PMID 33316766.
- Philippon, Damien; Wu, Peng; Cowling, Benjamin J; Lau, Eric H Y. Avian Influenza Human Infections at the Human-Animal Interface. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaa105
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