The deplyoment of the Influenzanet platform, for the web-based surveillance of influenza-like illness in UK during the 2009 pandemic, is extensively presented in the new publication:

Internet-based surveillance of Influenza-like-illness in the UK during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.

Tilston NL, Eames KT, Paolotti D, Ealden T, Edmunds WJ, BMC Public Health 2010, 10:650 (2010).

The paper presents the Internet-based monitoring of ILI launched near the peak of the first wave of the UK H1N1v influenza pandemic. Authors compares the recorded ILI incidence with physician-recorded incidence and an estimate of the true number of cases over the course of the epidemic. They also compare overall attack rates. The effect of using different ILI definitions and alternative denominator assumptions on incidence estimates is explored.

The Second Workshop “Dynamical Systems applied to Biology and Natural Sciences” will be held at the Centro de Matemática e Aplicações Fundamentais (CMAF), Lisbon University, in Portugal, from February 2 to 4, 2011.

The workshop has both theoretical and practical applications and the abstracts included in the program cover research topics in population dynamics, eco-epidemiology, epidemiology of infectious diseases and molecular and antigenic evolution.

Among the organizers are Nico Stollenwerk and Sebastian Ballesteros, from CMAF, Lisbon University, partner of the WP1 of the Epiwork project.

The Influenzanet Italian team who coordinates the Italian platform Influweb, will be present at the conference eHealth2010, in the session on Epidemic Intelligence, on the following topics: Web 2.0 and social networks, techniques for harnessing and mining user-generated content, provision of pertinent information to patients, outbreak detection and early warning systems, data collection and analysis for surveillance and epidemiology.

The aim of eHealth 2010 in Casablanca, Morocco, from 13th to 15th December 2010 is to bring together experts from academia, industry and global healthcare institutions such as WHO and ECDC to stimulate cutting-edge research discussions, share experience with real-world healthcare service providers and policy makers as well as provide numerous business opportunities.