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CurtisG
08-13-2009, 04:26 PM
Dont know if this has been posted yet but i found it interesting.
The idea of these is to get immediate info on flu statistics without the "lag" that occurs with traditional sources. It could be very advantageous for us if we knew about a "blow up" days before the MSM panics the public.
You can monitor "tweets" about flu on twitter but that didnt seem very scientific.

These are three that looked good, but there are others out there.
http://http://www.google.org/flutrends/intl/en_us/

The Umapper was hard on my dial up...
http://http://www.umapper.com/maps/view/id/30340/

This one has different map "visualizations" to suit your preference.
http://flutracker.rhizalabs.com/