March 2001 Disease Akron Health Dept. The Akron Health Department conducts weekly influenza surveillance for Summit County from October through April each year. This surveillance system gathers data from approximately 25 different sites throughout Summit County. Weekly charts describing surveillance results will be placed on this website during the surveillance season. The last two weeks of the Summit County Influenza Surveillance 2000-2001 season have been combined into this final report.
Influenza is at the pre-winter baseline levels.
There have been no cases in family practice centers, the business, the nursing homes, and institutions. Ohio Department of Health is still reporting sporadic influenza activity. Influenza B was specifically noted in France, Latvia and Norway. Finland, Germany and Russian Federation had a few localized outbreaks. This year's influenza season was abnormally and unpredictably mild.