Using Web and social media for influenza surveillance

Courtney D Corley; Diane J Cook; Armin R Mikler; Karan P Singh

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-5913-3_61

Back

Using Web and social media for influenza surveillance

Journal article

Open access

Peer reviewed

Using Web and social media for influenza surveillance

Courtney D Corley, Diane J Cook, Armin R Mikler and Karan P Singh

Advances in experimental medicine and biology, Vol.680, pp.559-564

2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5913-3_61

Handle:

https://hdl.handle.net/2376/106722

PMCID: PMC7123932

PMID: 20865540

Files and links (1)

url

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5913-3_61View

Published (Version of record) Open

Abstract

United States - epidemiology

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S

Information Storage and Retrieval - methods

Disease Outbreaks

Humans

Computational Biology

Blogging

Influenza, Human - epidemiology

Internet

Population Surveillance - methods

Analysis of Google influenza-like-illness (ILI) search queries has shown a strongly correlated pattern with Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention seasonal ILI reporting data. Web and social media provide another resource to detect increases in ILI. This paper evaluates trends in blog posts that discuss influenza. Our key finding is that from 5th October 2008 to 31st January 2009, a high correlation exists between the frequency of posts, containing influenza keywords, per week and CDC influenza-like-illness surveillance data.

Metrics

4 Record Views

See more details

Details

Title: Using Web and social media for influenza surveillance
Creators: Courtney D Corley - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA. court@pnl.gov
Diane J Cook
Armin R Mikler
Karan P Singh
Publication Details: Advances in experimental medicine and biology, Vol.680, pp.559-564
Academic Unit: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, School of
Publisher: United States
Identifiers: 99900546884001842
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article