Ebola, Twitter, and misinformation: A dangerous combination?

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 349, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Oyeyemi, Sunday Oluwafemi ^a   Gabarron, Elia ^b   Wynn, Rolf ^c  

^a State Specialist Hospital   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFRICA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; LETTER; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NIGERIA; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PANDEMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUTH AFRICA; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

COMMUNICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PANDEMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84908440181     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g6178     Document Type: Letter

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