Disease surveillance using online news: an extended study of dengue fever in India

Abstract Background The study demonstrates the potential in using newspaper information as a proxy for monitoring dengue fever outbreaks in India. Online newspapers are being considered as sources of information on disease surveillance, early outbreak detection, and epidemiology research. Our object...

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Main Authors: Yiding Zhang, Motomu Ibaraki, Franklin W. Schwartz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-12-01
Series:Tropical Medicine and Health
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s41182-019-0189-y