The Arkansas Department of Health has created this flu reporting website to track and record suspected and confirmed cases of influenza.  Providers and facilities are requested to implement this flu case reporting by entering individual case information  This information enables the Arkansas Department of Health to gain a picture of the impact of flu on Arkansas as a whole, as well as by geographic location. Pandemics travel in waves; not every community or region will be impacted at the same time. Therefore, having influenza case data will help us better target our response measures and our communications more effectively to those areas that are being the most impacted.