Social Media Messages in an Emerging Health Crisis: Tweeting Bird Flu

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 301-308

  Vos, Sarah C ^a   Buckner, Marjorie M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BIRD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H7N9); INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H7N9 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84959335835     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: 10870415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2015.1064495     Document Type: Article

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