Using Google Trends for Influenza Surveillance in South China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kang, Min ^a   Zhong, Haojie ^a   He, Jianfeng ^a   Rutherford, Shannon ^b   Yang, Fen ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ARTICLE; CHINA; COMMON COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; INCIDENCE; INTERNET; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; SEASONAL VARIATION; WEB BROWSER;

CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERNET; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84872867329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055205     Document Type: Article

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