Watch how Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) Public Health used Infection Watch Live to monitor and manage the 2nd wave of H1N1 in their community.

Infection Watch Live is hard at work in southeastern Ontario, now that we’re in the third week of this second wave of Novel H1N1 Influenza A (human swine flu).

Infonaut’s online, publicly-accessible Infection Watch Live solution, implemented for KFL&A Public Health, clearly shows widespread respiratory and gastrointestinal symptom presentation in the area.

Click the image below to see live infection data for southeastern Ontario:

>>Swine flu outbreak no reason to panic

It’s difficult to tell in some instances which is moving faster — the virus or the information announcing its progression. Updates arrive not hourly, but every minute, from every corner of the globe.

Here in Kingston, we can go online to www.kfla.ca and click on the infection watch live website to monitor changes in area illness activity. Green, yellow and red indicate, respectively, normal, elevated or high activity of respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses.

Full Article:  here.

>> Kingstonians appear to be taking outbreak seriously

Gemmill said that local health authorities are monitoring the new influenza strain via a 24- hour “syndromic surveillance” system that reports any unusual changes in respiratory and gastrointestinal illness activity. The public can view the system by logging onto www.kfla.ca and clicking on “infection watch live website.”

Full Article:  here.