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Twitter data accurately tracked Haiti cholera outbreak
Social media could give epidemiologists a head start on outbreaks.
Daniela Hirschfeld
10 January 2012
An article from SciDev.Net.
The informal information source, Twitter, was yielding data that would have been a quicker way of detecting and tracking the deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti than traditional methods, according to a study.
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http://www.nature.com/news/twitter-data-accurately-tracked-haiti-cholera-outbreak-1.9770
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Social media could give epidemiologists a head start on outbreaks.
Daniela Hirschfeld
10 January 2012
An article from SciDev.Net.
The informal information source, Twitter, was yielding data that would have been a quicker way of detecting and tracking the deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti than traditional methods, according to a study.
more...
http://www.nature.com/news/twitter-data-accurately-tracked-haiti-cholera-outbreak-1.9770
FluTrackers Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/FluTrackers