The ILINet Surveillance Program works in collaboration with the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to provide a state and nationwide report on the spread of the influenza virus and its current activity. The ILINet data, in combination with other influenza surveillance data, can be used to guide prevention and control activities, vaccine strain selection, and patient care. ILINet Providers help fight the disease by collecting and reporting their total number of patient visits and their total numbers of patient visits for Influenza-Like-Illness (ILI) to the CDC on a weekly basis. Free of charge, ILINet Providers are permitted to submit a designated number of patient specimens to the NYSDOH Wadsworth Center for virus testing and sub-typing.

Additionally, all ILINet Providers receive a free subscription to the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal.

Further information may be obtained from the MSSNY website or by contacting: