FluTrackers is a website,
online forum and early warning system which tracks and gathers information relating to a wide range of infectious diseases, including
flu and assists in how to use it to inform the general public. It was co-founded by
Sharon Sanders & Jeremy Walsh in 2006, initially to investigate
seasonal influenza, novel influenza, and
chikungunya. Later, it extended to include
Ebola,
Zika and
drug resistant bacteria. In the first ten months of 2017, it received 18 million views.[1][2][3][4]
At the end of December 2019, the site began communicating early information on the outbreak of atypical pneumonia in Wuhan, later known to be due to
SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the
COVID-19 pandemic.[4][5][6]
Philippon, Damien; Wu, Peng; Cowling, Benjamin J; Lau, Eric H Y. Avian Influenza Human Infections at the Human-Animal Interface. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaa105