Monitoring influenza epidemics in china with search query from baidu.

Several approaches have been proposed for near real-time detection and prediction of the spread of influenza. These include search query data for influenza-related terms, which has been explored as a tool for augmenting traditional surveillance methods. In this paper, we present a method that uses I...

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Main Authors: Qingyu Yuan, Elaine O Nsoesie, Benfu Lv, Geng Peng, Rumi Chunara, John S Brownstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3667820?pdf=render