National Public Radio’s multimedia team has produced a new nationwide influenza map, and public media stations are welcome to embed the widget on their websites. The map shows the prevalence of flu-like illness by region and compares this year’s data with the percentage of flu related cases reported last year. To feed the map, NPR is using official data provided by the CDC. The map does not differentiate between H1N1 and seasonal flu. Most flu cases are not being tested to confirm if they are 2009 H1N1 flu, and the overwhelming majority of flu cases this season are from the swine flu, according to the CDC.
There are two sizes of the map widget stations can grab and embed: The large map is 600 x 425 pixels and the smaller version is 300 x 250. Once embedded, the widget will update automatically with the latest flu data.
