FluWeather

Influenza is one of the more deadly of all airborne and upper respiratory infections. Three million hospitalizations and over 22000 deaths, on average, are attributed to it every year. The seasonality of influenza suggests a climatic connection, but the wide range of approaches used to explore this connection makes it difficult to elucidate a definitive relationship. A lot of what is known about the effects of weather and climate on the seasonality of influenza is based upon research conducted by public health officials, medical and climatology communities. A number of papers relate the onset of influenza to the level of relative humidity and temperature but relative humidity appears to be a more reliable predictor of infectiousness. Areas with a relative humidity less then 65% are areas of interest and highlighted by a label of the level relative humidity. This app starts by filtering out all of the locations where there is no activity in the CDC file entitled "http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/flureport.xml” . It then looks for areas in the United States where the relative humidity is less than 65 and is then joined with the results of the filtering. The app was developed using Yahoo pipes.

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• cdc-open-data