Influenza-like illness and health care costs

What is it about?

While influenza-like illness is an important measure of morbidity it is weakly related to mortality. Hence periods of high death can occur in the absence of any influenza-like illness.

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Why is it important?

This is important because unexplained periods of higher than expected deaths are occurring which cannot be attributed to common pathogens such as influenza.

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