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FluWatch is Canada's national surveillance system that monitors the spread of flu and flu-like illnesses on an on-going basis. The FluWatch program consists of a network of labs, hospitals, doctor's offices and provincial and territorial ministries of health. Program objectives include to:
• Detect flu outbreaks across the country as early as possible
• Provide timely up-to-date information on flu activity in Canada and abroad to health professionals [and interested Canadians]
• Monitor circulating strains of the flu virus (like H1N1) and assess their sensitivity to antiviral medications, [such as Tamiflu and Relenza]. Antivirals, when used by doctors to treat flu, can help reduce the severity of the illness and the recovery time for a patient
• Provide information that the World Health Organization can use to make its recommendations on the best vaccine to use for seasonal flu shots.

"FluWatch is Canada's national surveillance system that monitors the spread of flu and flu-like illnesses on an on-going basis. The FluWatch program consists of a network of labs, hospitals, doctor's offices and provincial and territorial ministries of health. Program objectives include to:
• Detect flu outbreaks across the country as early as possible
• Provide timely up-to-date information on flu activity in Canada and abroad to health professionals [and interested Canadians]
• Monitor circulating strains of the flu virus (like H1N1) and assess their sensitivity to antiviral medications, [such as Tamiflu and Relenza]. Antivirals, when used by doctors to treat flu, can help reduce the severity of the illness and the recovery time for a patient
• Provide information that the World Health Organization can use to make its recommendations on the best vaccine to use for seasonal flu shots."

FluWatch is Canada's national surveillance system that monitors the spread of influenza and influenza-like illnesses on an ongoing basis. The FluWatch program consists of a network of labs, hospitals, doctor's offices and provincial and territorial ministries of health. Program objectives are:
• DETECT: Identify signals to detect, assess and respond to epidemics and other events of public health concern. • INFORM: Contribute to the evidence base necessary to plan, develop and implement health programs and policies for the control of influenza.

FluWatch is Canada's national surveillance system that monitors the spread of influenza and influenza-like illnesses on an ongoing basis. The FluWatch program consists of a network of labs, hospitals, doctor's offices and provincial and territorial ministries of health. Program objectives are:
• DETECT: Identify signals to detect, assess and respond to epidemics and other events of public health concern. • INFORM: Contribute to the evidence base necessary to plan, develop and implement health programs and policies for the control of influenza.

FluWatch is Canada's national surveillance system that monitors the spread of influenza and influenza-like illnesses on an ongoing basis. The FluWatch program consists of a network of labs, hospitals, doctor's offices and provincial and territorial ministries of health. Program objectives are:
• DETECT: Identify signals to detect, assess and respond to epidemics and other events of public health concern. • INFORM: Contribute to the evidence base necessary to plan, develop and implement health programs and policies for the control of influenza.

FluWatch is Canada's national surveillance system that monitors the spread of flu and flu-like illnesses on an on-going basis. Activity Level surveillance is a component of FluWatch that provides an overall assessment of the intensity and geographical spread of laboratory-confirmed influenza cases, influenza-like-illness (ILI) and reported outbreaks for a given surveillance region. Activity Levels are assigned and reported by Provincial and Territorial Ministries of Health. A surveillance region can be classified under one of the four following categories: no activity, sporadic, localized or widespread.

The 2009-2010 influenza season activity levels data indicates activity level reported by epidemiological week;
The 2009-2010 influenza season respiratory virus detection indicates the number of laboratory tests conducted for respiratory viruses by week;
The 2009-2010 influenza season outbreaks data indicates the number of outbreaks reported by setting and epidemiological week and The 2009-2010 influenza season Influenza-like-Illness data indicates the rate of Influenza-like-Illness per 1000 patient visits by epidemiological week.

The 2008-2009 influenza season activity levels data indicates activity level reported by epidemiological week;
The 2008-2009 influenza season respiratory virus detection indicates the number of laboratory tests conducted for respiratory viruses by week;
The 2008-2009 influenza season outbreaks data indicates the number of outbreaks reported by setting and epidemiological week and the 2008-2009 influenza season Influenza-like-Illness data indicates the rate of Influenza-like-Illness per 1000 patient visits by epidemiological week.

The 2013-14 influenza season activity levels data indicates activity level reported by epidemiological week;
The 2013-14 influenza season respiratory virus detection indicates the number of laboratory tests conducted for respiratory viruses by week;
The 2013-14 influenza season outbreaks data indicates the number of outbreaks reported by setting and epidemiological week;The 2013-2014 influenza season laboratory data indicates the number of influenza viruses detected by influenza type, age and epidemiological week;
The 2013-2014 influenza season Influenza-like-Illness data indicates the rate of Influenza-like-Illness per 1000 patient visits by epidemiological week;
The 2013-2014 influenza season hospitalizations and deaths data indicates the number of hospitalizations, ICU admissions and deaths by epidemiological week;
The 2013-2014 influenza season hospitalizations and deaths data indicates the number of hospitalizations, ICU admissions and deaths by epidemiological week and the 2013-2014 influenza season hospitalizations and deaths data indicates the number of hospitalizations, ICU admissions and deaths by epidemiological week

FluWatch is Canada's national surveillance system that monitors the spread of influenza and influenza-like illnesses on an ongoing basis. FluWatch reports, posted every Friday, contain information on flu activity in Canada. The FluWatch program consists of a network of labs, hospitals, doctor's offices and provincial and territorial ministries of health. Program objectives are: •DETECT: Identify signals to detect, assess and respond to epidemics and other events of public health concern.