It is therefore important to identify a coming epidemic, as early as possible, in order for the health care sector to make necessary prioritizations. Influenza surveillance systems exist in the entire industrialized world, and in many developing countries, and the WHO has a well developed network, FluNet , with national influenza centers throughout the world. The influenza surveillance in Sweden is based on the County Medical Offices for Communicable Disease Control and the clinical virology laboratories, with the SMI as a national coordinator. The Department of Epidemiology collects the reported data during the influenza season and compiles a weekly influenza report, which is published on this homepage and faxed to the County Medical Officers Of Communicable Disease Control, the Infectious disease clinics and the Clinical microbiology laboratories. The information is also forwarded to the FluNet .
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