Perhaps more damning, the report describes an agency without an overarching compliance system to monitor such activity, and employees who either misunderstood or didn't follow existing reporting rules.

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Each has strengths and weaknesses and thus to monitor influenza activity in the United States, the CDC runs both a syndromic system (called ILInet, short for Influenza-like Illness network) and a virologic system (part of a larger system called NREVSS).

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