by Scott Hensley

05:48 pm

May 6, 2009

 

Things seem a little quieter at Flu Shots Central this afternoon. And we think we know why. You people are just not blogging as much about swine flu as you were last week.

The folks at Nielsen Online pulled together some fresh data for us on mentions of swine flu on English-language blogs. Take a look at the chart below and you'll see the dropoff in chatter, compared with a week ago.

We'll do our part to keep the line from dropping further. How about you?

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Nielsen Online

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