Flu near you: Crowdsourced symptom reporting spanning 2 influenza seasons

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 105, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2124-2130

  Smolinski, Mark S ^a   Crawley, Adam W ^a   Baltrusaitis, Kristin ^b   Chunara, Rumi ^b   Olsen, Jennifer M ^a   Wójcik, Oktawia ^b   Santillana, Mauricio ^b   Nguyen, Andre ^c   Brownstein, John S ^b  

^a Skoll Global Threats Fund   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER INTERFACE; CROWDSOURCING; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; UNITED STATES;

CROWDSOURCING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84941360461     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302696     Document Type: Article

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