Twitter Influence on UK Vaccination and Antiviral Uptake during the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages

  McNeill, Andrew ^a   Harris, Peter R ^b   Briggs, Pam ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

H1N1 virus; influenza; pandemic; public health; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019604608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00026     Document Type: Article

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