2015-16 CDC U.S. Influenza Trends: Bad Year or Not?

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control provides valuable data on tracking trends for influenza in the U.S.

The most recent trend using outpatient visit percentages is reproduced here. 

The trend for 2015-16 is below 2% of all outpatient visits through the most recent data.

However, the trends graph shows the typical epidemic period is still approaching. It will be a few more weeks before the 2015-2016 influenza trajectory can be assessed.

I have previously posted two items on the relevance of influenza to neuroscience medicine:

Prenatal influenza as a risk for pre-term birth (pre-term birth contributes to a variety of childhood brain disorders)

Prenatal influenza as a risk for adolescent and adult psychotic disorders

For more information on influenza trends in the U.S. from the CDC go here.

Figure is from CDC. Original is here.

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