Using web and social media for influenza surveillance

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 680, Issue , 2010, Pages 559-564

  Corley, Courtney D ^a   Cook, Diane J ^b   Mikler, Armin R ^b   Singh, Karan P ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Disease surveillance; Health informatics; Information retrieval; Public health epidemiology; Social media analytics

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; LABORATORY TEST; MASS MEDIUM; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES;

BLOGGING; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952200661     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5913-3_61     Document Type: Conference Paper

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