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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Flu Trends Shows Most 'Intense' Season in 6 Years

The aggregator also shows that in the same six-year period, flu activity typically has peaked in February and March, not in early January, as it happening this season.

Flu season has peaked in Illinois to a level not seen in at least six years, and has peaked earlier than any other flu season except in 2009-10, according to Google.org’s Flu Trends, which boasts that it uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity. Flu Trends shows the intensity level of flu activity at this time is the highest seen in at least six years. The aggregator also shows that in the same six-year period, flu activity typically has peaked in February and March, not in early January, as it happening this season.  Only in 2009-10, when swine flu swept the nation, did flu activity peak earlier — in October — over the past six years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Illinois Department of Public …

Thursday, August 30, 2012

West Nile Virus Cases Continue To Climb; More Cases Reported in Chicago Suburbs

The CDC announced that West Nile Virus cases are up 40 percent this week from last. This is the worst year for West Nile Virus since it started tracking in 1999. Check out how your area is faring in our interactive map of diagnosed cases.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced this week that West Nile Virus cases are up 40 percent from last week. Last week, the CDC reported that reported cases of West Nile Virus are at an all-time high. While Illinois does not rank among the top five states in terms of cases, there have been 21 reported human cases of West Nile Virus in Illinois as of Aug. 21. Those cases have been clustered in the Chicago area, with 13 human cases in Cook County and one in Lake County. In the map above, Patch charted both cases of West Nile Virus confirmed in both humans and mosquitoes, according to our reporting. You can read the coverage from the western part of the area here. For coverage closer to the lake, click here. The CDC lists …

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