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Type of site |
Internet forum |
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| URL | Official website |
| Launched | 2006 |
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.
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.
Further reading
- 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