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FluMeter iPhone app goes beyond current CDC news and podcasts and uses recent scientific data to evaluate flu virability at your current GPS location. This data updated hourly to estimate risk of flu transmission based on weather. Our application produces information worldwide!
FluMeter will also help you to stay healthy by providing risk avareness levels for contracting influenza along with preventative information from the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
Use FluMeter to find out…
Your risk of contracting the flu
- See risk levels for contracting influenza based on weather conditions in your location
- Access nationwide information on influenza activity provided by CDC
- Share current information with friends using Twitter, Facebook and email.
How to stay healthy
- Read prevention tips and learn how the flu is spread
- Ways of identifying the flu
- Get a list of symptoms and a description of the influenza virus
- Learn what to do if you think you have the flu
More information!
- Read flu news and listen to podcasts from the CDC
- Includes updates in Spanish!
- Powerful News Search Tool!
Articles referenced:
1. Aerosol Influenza Transmission Risk Contours, Hanley and Borup, Virology Journal, 2010
2. Transmission Is Dependent on Relative Humidity and Temperature, Anice Lowen, Samira Mubareka, John Steel, Peter Palese, PLoS Pathogens, 2007
Weather information from: www.worldweatheronline.com
Video music by Edward Kalendar, (c) 1999
Find out now by downloading the free FluMeter app from iTunes.
New version is under review at iTunes that contains podcast player, social interaction and Name of current location.