TY - JOUR AU - Layne, Scott T1 - Human Influenza Surveillance: the Demand to Expand T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2006 VL - 12 IS - 4 SP - 562 SN - 1080-6059 AB - The World Health Organization Influenza Program is one of the best developed and longest running infectious disease surveillance systems that exists. It maintains a worldwide watch of influenza's evolution to assist delivery of appropriately formulated vaccines in time to blunt seasonal epidemics and unpredictable pandemics. Despite the program's success, however, much more is possible with today's advanced technologies. This article summarizes ongoing human influenza surveillance activities worldwide. It shows that the technology to establish a high-throughput laboratory network that can process and test influenza viruses more quickly and more accurately is available. It also emphasizes the practical public health and scientific applications of such a network. KW - Influenza KW - surveillance KW - public health KW - vaccines KW - antivirals KW - high-throughput KW - laboratory methods KW - epidemiology KW - phenotype KW - genotype KW - perspective DO - 10.3201/eid1204.051198 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/4/05-1198_article ER - End of Reference