Forecasting Zika Incidence in the 2016 Latin America Outbreak Combining Traditional Disease Surveillance with Search, Social Media, and News Report Data

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  McGough, Sarah F ^a,b   Brownstein, John S ^b,c   Hawkins, Jared B ^b,c   Santillana, Mauricio ^b,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TRAINING; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FORECASTING; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTILIZATION; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LATIN AMERICA; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOCIAL MEDIA; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85012923147     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005295     Document Type: Article

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