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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Dear Brain Posts Reader:
This week has been a fireworks experience for me as Brain Posts passed the 3 million pageview mark.
I started the blog in 2009 and have posted 676 posts over the last six years.
I started the blog primarily as a note-taking forum for my scientific reading. I select neuroscience research I feel is noteworthy and important from PubMed. Selecting a single study for more detailed notes has been a helpful focus and memory tool.
Over 400,000 Brain Posts pageviews have come via the research blogging aggregation website ResearchBlogging.org. They have a very helpful tool for adding citations to scientific blogs. I highly recommend adding their website to your RSS feed and following them on Twitter @ResearchBlogs
I want say thanks to everyone who has been accessing Brain Posts. Readers from the U.S. are the top readers of the site. But I want to also thank readers from around the world including those from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany and India who rank in the top 5 international Brain Posts pageviews. Thanks also to the growing number of readers from Russia and Ukraine in the last year
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