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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Department of Health has created a system for tracking influenza across the state to detect changes in the disease as they occur.
The influenza surveillance system involves partners across New Mexico in clinics, hospitals, laboratories, at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and within the state health department.
The department maintains a network of 27 sites statewide that collect data on a weekly basis for patients seeking care for influenza-like illness.
The state participates in a system for monitoring residents hospitalized with influenza in 23 hospitals in New Mexico and Texas.
Data is collected to track the number of people who have died from influenza and related infections and to understand what other risk factors contributed to their death.
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