The Complex Relationship of Realspace Events and Messages in Cyberspace: Case Study of Influenza and Pertussis Using Tweets
BackgroundSurveillance plays a vital role in disease detection, but traditional methods of collecting patient data, reporting to health officials, and compiling reports are costly and time consuming. In recent years, syndromic surveillance tools have expanded and researchers...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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JMIR Publications
2013-10-01
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Series: | Journal of Medical Internet Research |
Online Access: | http://www.jmir.org/2013/10/e237/ |