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Monitoring influenza-like symptoms in the UK through participatory surveillance: insights from FluSurvey over two winter seasons (2023-24 and 2024-25)

2026-02-15 public and global health Title + abstract only
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FluSurvey is a participatory surveillance system used to monitor trends in influenza and other respiratory viruses through weekly symptom surveys among the UK population. We aimed to characterise the wider impact of "influenza-like illnesses" (ILI) among FluSurvey participants and assess correlations of ILI with other established influenza surveillance systems. We included data reported by FluSurvey participants over the 2023-24 and 2024-25 winter seasons. Using weekly symptoms surveys, we deri...

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