Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, has launched a service to help medical experts and the public track the incidence of influenza across the United States. Google Flu Trends presents a map of current flu activity throughout the nation. Flu kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people a year and studies indicate that between 35% and 40% of all visits to the internet are started by people looking for health information.
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