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BMC Public Health BioMed Central Research article Open Access A profile of the online dissemination of national influenza surveillance data Calvin KY Cheng, Eric HY Lau*, Dennis KM Ip, Alfred SY Yeung, Lai Ming Ho and Benjamin J Cowling Address: Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Email: Calvin KY Cheng - chengkyc@hkucc.hku.hk; Eric HY Lau* - ehylau@hku.hk; Dennis KM Ip - dkmip@hku.hk; Alfred SY Yeung - alfredsyyeung@; Lai Ming Ho - lmho@hku.hk; Benjamin J Cowling - bcowling@hku.hk * Corresponding author Published: 16 September 2009 Received: 5 February 2009 Accepted: 16 September 2009 BMC Public Health 2009, 9:339 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-339 This article is available from: /1471-2458/9/339 © 2009 Cheng et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Influenza surveillance systems provide important and timely information to health service providers on trends in the circulation of influenza virus and other upper respiratory tract infections. Online dissemination of surveillance data is useful for risk communication to health care professionals, the media and the general public. We reviewed national influenza surveillance websites from around the world to describe th