Evaluation of local media surveillance for improved disease recognition and monitoring in global hotspot regions.

Digital disease detection tools are technologically sophisticated, but dependent on digital information, which for many areas suffering from high disease burdens is simply not an option. In areas where news is often reported in local media with no digital counterpart, integration of local news infor...

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Main Authors: Jessica S Schwind, David J Wolking, John S Brownstein, PREDICT Consortium1, Jonna A K Mazet, Woutrina A Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4198292?pdf=render