Flutracking season is back!
We are kicking off this coming Monday 8th April and we’d love your support to share the message by tagging in your friends!
Here is our new updated explainer video.
If you aren’t a FluTracker already, we would love you to join and be a part of this very important citizen-science research.
Just go to www.flutracking.net/?f5 to find out more
sarahs mum said:
Flutracking season is back!We are kicking off this coming Monday 8th April and we’d love your support to share the message by tagging in your friends!
Here is our new updated explainer video.
If you aren’t a FluTracker already, we would love you to join and be a part of this very important citizen-science research.
Just go to www.flutracking.net/?f5 to find out more
Do they track which virus is where? Are colds included?
mollwollfumble said:
sarahs mum said:
Flutracking season is back!We are kicking off this coming Monday 8th April and we’d love your support to share the message by tagging in your friends!
Here is our new updated explainer video.
If you aren’t a FluTracker already, we would love you to join and be a part of this very important citizen-science research.
Just go to www.flutracking.net/?f5 to find out more
Do they track which virus is where? Are colds included?
https://www.facebook.com/Flutracking/videos/2340849896237048/?t=57
Those links don’t help me understand much.
Wikipedia’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flutrack seems different, it’s an analysis of twitter searching for words like “influenza”.
In fact, the only reference to it in wikipedia seems to be a single sentence in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenzanet
“Influenzanet is a syndromic surveillance system that monitors the activity of influenza-like illness (ILI) with the help of volunteers via the Internet. … In Australia, a comparable project called Flutracking started in 2006 with 400 Flutrackers completing a 10 – 15 second online survey about flu-like symptoms each week has over 8,000 weekly participants in 2010.”
Aha, here’s the link you want to read:
http://info.flutracking.net/about/
2018 was a low flu incidence year in Australia, fairly constant at up to 1.8%. But that’s still a lot higher than Holland, Belgium, Portugal in 2008-2009, which peaked at 1.2% and went as low as 0.1% (even less in Belgium). Most who sought medical help for fever and cough in Australia in 2018 did not have the flu, only 4.3% did. mollwollfumble guesses that most of the rest had colds, 2018 was a bad year for colds.
mollwollfumble said:
Those links don’t help me understand much.Wikipedia’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flutrack seems different, it’s an analysis of twitter searching for words like “influenza”.
In fact, the only reference to it in wikipedia seems to be a single sentence in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenzanet
“Influenzanet is a syndromic surveillance system that monitors the activity of influenza-like illness (ILI) with the help of volunteers via the Internet. … In Australia, a comparable project called Flutracking started in 2006 with 400 Flutrackers completing a 10 – 15 second online survey about flu-like symptoms each week has over 8,000 weekly participants in 2010.”
Aha, here’s the link you want to read:
http://info.flutracking.net/about/
2018 was a low flu incidence year in Australia, fairly constant at up to 1.8%. But that’s still a lot higher than Holland, Belgium, Portugal in 2008-2009, which peaked at 1.2% and went as low as 0.1% (even less in Belgium). Most who sought medical help for fever and cough in Australia in 2018 did not have the flu, only 4.3% did. mollwollfumble guesses that most of the rest had colds, 2018 was a bad year for colds.
I find cold temperatures can give me a runny nose.
ie under 15 degrees, this temp would be slightly different for different people
I’m wondering if there is a way to keep colds and flu at bay using warm air ?
Use people who regularly get colds each year
Create a study into people who wear face marks designed to keep the temperatures of the nose at warmer temperatures
maybe they will only have to wear face masks for only a few months of the year while in colder environments
I’m thinking face marks that can create a temperature of around 20 degrees.
The face masks could be designed to be transparent and light and just covering the nose area.
Tau.Neutrino said:
mollwollfumble said:
Those links don’t help me understand much.Wikipedia’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flutrack seems different, it’s an analysis of twitter searching for words like “influenza”.
In fact, the only reference to it in wikipedia seems to be a single sentence in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenzanet
“Influenzanet is a syndromic surveillance system that monitors the activity of influenza-like illness (ILI) with the help of volunteers via the Internet. … In Australia, a comparable project called Flutracking started in 2006 with 400 Flutrackers completing a 10 – 15 second online survey about flu-like symptoms each week has over 8,000 weekly participants in 2010.”
Aha, here’s the link you want to read:
http://info.flutracking.net/about/
2018 was a low flu incidence year in Australia, fairly constant at up to 1.8%. But that’s still a lot higher than Holland, Belgium, Portugal in 2008-2009, which peaked at 1.2% and went as low as 0.1% (even less in Belgium). Most who sought medical help for fever and cough in Australia in 2018 did not have the flu, only 4.3% did. mollwollfumble guesses that most of the rest had colds, 2018 was a bad year for colds.
I find cold temperatures can give me a runny nose.
ie under 15 degrees, this temp would be slightly different for different people
I’m wondering if there is a way to keep colds and flu at bay using warm air ?
Use people who regularly get colds each year
Create a study into people who wear face marks designed to keep the temperatures of the nose at warmer temperatures
maybe they will only have to wear face masks for only a few months of the year while in colder environments
I’m thinking face marks that can create a temperature of around 20 degrees.
The face masks could be designed to be transparent and light and just covering the nose area.
That could be one way people get so many cold is drawing in cold air into a warmer body, the colder the air the mosre likely of a runny nose
it would create some interesting science of colder temperatures being drawn into a warm body at 36 degrees
start at 15 degrees and work down to minus 40 degrees cold air
some how the body reacts to cold by creating a runny nose, why ?
This could be a new area to study. Unless its already been done.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
mollwollfumble said:
Those links don’t help me understand much.Wikipedia’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flutrack seems different, it’s an analysis of twitter searching for words like “influenza”.
In fact, the only reference to it in wikipedia seems to be a single sentence in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenzanet
“Influenzanet is a syndromic surveillance system that monitors the activity of influenza-like illness (ILI) with the help of volunteers via the Internet. … In Australia, a comparable project called Flutracking started in 2006 with 400 Flutrackers completing a 10 – 15 second online survey about flu-like symptoms each week has over 8,000 weekly participants in 2010.”
Aha, here’s the link you want to read:
http://info.flutracking.net/about/
2018 was a low flu incidence year in Australia, fairly constant at up to 1.8%. But that’s still a lot higher than Holland, Belgium, Portugal in 2008-2009, which peaked at 1.2% and went as low as 0.1% (even less in Belgium). Most who sought medical help for fever and cough in Australia in 2018 did not have the flu, only 4.3% did. mollwollfumble guesses that most of the rest had colds, 2018 was a bad year for colds.
I find cold temperatures can give me a runny nose.
ie under 15 degrees, this temp would be slightly different for different people
I’m wondering if there is a way to keep colds and flu at bay using warm air ?
Use people who regularly get colds each year
Create a study into people who wear face marks designed to keep the temperatures of the nose at warmer temperatures
maybe they will only have to wear face masks for only a few months of the year while in colder environments
I’m thinking face marks that can create a temperature of around 20 degrees.
The face masks could be designed to be transparent and light and just covering the nose area.
That could be one way people get so many cold is drawing in cold air into a warmer body, the colder the air the mosre likely of a runny nose
it would create some interesting science of colder temperatures being drawn into a warm body at 36 degrees
start at 15 degrees and work down to minus 40 degrees cold air
some how the body reacts to cold by creating a runny nose, why ?
This could be a new area to study. Unless its already been done.
The study would also look at runny noses and bacteria build up at certain temperatures.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:I find cold temperatures can give me a runny nose.
ie under 15 degrees, this temp would be slightly different for different people
I’m wondering if there is a way to keep colds and flu at bay using warm air ?
Use people who regularly get colds each year
Create a study into people who wear face marks designed to keep the temperatures of the nose at warmer temperatures
maybe they will only have to wear face masks for only a few months of the year while in colder environments
I’m thinking face marks that can create a temperature of around 20 degrees.
The face masks could be designed to be transparent and light and just covering the nose area.
That could be one way people get so many cold is drawing in cold air into a warmer body, the colder the air the mosre likely of a runny nose
it would create some interesting science of colder temperatures being drawn into a warm body at 36 degrees
start at 15 degrees and work down to minus 40 degrees cold air
some how the body reacts to cold by creating a runny nose, why ?
This could be a new area to study. Unless its already been done.
The study would also look at runny noses and bacteria build up at certain temperatures.
Runny noses would give bacteria a medium to easily move around more within the body.
Use 1000 people who get colds / flu wearing the nose mask and 1000 people who get colds / flu not wearing a nose mask.
Data from this study could then be used to create medications that work at certain temperatures, if the theory is correct.
It would be interesting to see bacteria build up at certain temperatures.
Divine Angel said:
mollwollfumble said:
sarahs mum said:
Flutracking season is back!We are kicking off this coming Monday 8th April and we’d love your support to share the message by tagging in your friends!
Here is our new updated explainer video.
If you aren’t a FluTracker already, we would love you to join and be a part of this very important citizen-science research.
Just go to www.flutracking.net/?f5 to find out more
Do they track which virus is where? Are colds included?
Sort of, and yes. The weekly survey asks you about symptoms. Based on “flu-like illness” it gives a map. From memory of last year, they don’t have a medically diagnosed map of actual flu cases. (I could be misremembering.)
Yep all the above plus – NSW Health publish a monthly surveillance map of flu cases, looking at lab verified influenza.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:That could be one way people get so many cold is drawing in cold air into a warmer body, the colder the air the mosre likely of a runny nose
it would create some interesting science of colder temperatures being drawn into a warm body at 36 degrees
start at 15 degrees and work down to minus 40 degrees cold air
some how the body reacts to cold by creating a runny nose, why ?
This could be a new area to study. Unless its already been done.
The study would also look at runny noses and bacteria build up at certain temperatures.
Runny noses would give bacteria a medium to easily move around more within the body.
Use 1000 people who get colds / flu wearing the nose mask and 1000 people who get colds / flu not wearing a nose mask.
Data from this study could then be used to create medications that work at certain temperatures, if the theory is correct.
It would be interesting to see bacteria build up at certain temperatures.
cold and flu viruses aren’t bacteria, HTH.
poikilotherm said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:The study would also look at runny noses and bacteria build up at certain temperatures.
Runny noses would give bacteria a medium to easily move around more within the body.
Use 1000 people who get colds / flu wearing the nose mask and 1000 people who get colds / flu not wearing a nose mask.
Data from this study could then be used to create medications that work at certain temperatures, if the theory is correct.
It would be interesting to see bacteria build up at certain temperatures.
cold and flu viruses aren’t bacteria, HTH.
I meant to include all three.
Off topic but related.
Severe flu could cause taste buds to grow in your lungs
While most of us shake off the flu after a week or two, in more extreme cases the virus has been known to actually reshape the structure of the lungs. Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered a major part of that restructuring that until now had gone unnoticed – “taste bud cells” seem to grow in the lungs after a severe case of the flu.