When will the rest of CDC’s surveillance systems be “re-set”?
CDC’s regular flu surveillance systems (not including the hospitalizations and deaths reporting system) are long-standing systems that run year-round. These regular reporting systems “re-set” each October (during Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Week 40 – October 4-10, 2009) in anticipation of a new flu season. CDC’s standard influenza surveillance, which includes viral surveillance, sentinel physician surveillance for influenza-like illness (ILI), deaths from the 122 Cities Mortality Monitoring System, and the number of laboratory-confirmed deaths from influenza among children, will all re-set starting with MMWR Week 40 as usual.
