PAHO Launches Dashboard to Track Respiratory Viruses
Interactive tool monitors virus trends across the Americas.
To better monitor and analyze the spread of respiratory viruses, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has introduced a new tool. The interactive dashboard aims to improve surveillance and enable faster investigation of regional trends.
Dashboard Features
The dashboard delivers virological data, sourced from FluNet, along with epidemiological information, via FluID. All is accessible through the regional data hub (AMart), presenting vital indicators on a user-friendly, multilingual platform.
Virologic surveillance allows for tracking of virus circulation trends, presenting lab sample data and percent positivity for all countries and subregions. Syndromic surveillance shows data on reported cases of severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) and influenza-like illness (ILI), along with ICU admissions and SARI-related deaths.
Users can also select any country in the Americas to view related virologic and syndromic surveillance data. All dashboard visualizations can be customized by time period and are available in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Public health experts, health authorities and stakeholders in respiratory virus surveillance can use it.
The dashboard provides access to a regional summary of the virological situation. Data from epidemiological week 25 of 2025 (June 15–21) indicates that influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) circulation is consistent with historical seasonal patterns, showing high activity in the Southern Hemisphere and low activity in the Northern Hemisphere.
The dashboard shows that SARS-CoV-2 lacks defined seasonality, but circulation remains low in most subregions, except for the Caribbean, where higher activity was observed in June 2025. In the U.S. alone, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) led to 60,000–160,000 hospitalizations and 6,000–10,000 deaths among older adults (CDC).
Country profiles offer a more detailed breakdown. For up-to-date information, visit PAHO’s new interactive dashboard.
