"Google flu trends" and emergency department triage data predicted the 2009 pandemic H1N1 waves in Manitoba

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 294-297

  Malik, Mohammad Tufail ^a   Gumel, Abba ^a   Thompson, Laura H ^a   Strome, Trevor ^b   Mahmud, Salaheddin M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b WINNIPEG REGIONAL HEALTH AUTHORITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; H1N1 subtype; Influenza a virus; Public health surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961205519     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03404053     Document Type: Article

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