CDC versus Google Trends
Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention,
Influenza is capturing a lot of media attention this week. Boston declared a public health emergency, activity is widespread in…
More apps, less flu?
Environmental Health,
Fewer people caught the flu this season compared with past years. And many more apps tracking the flu have been developed. Any…
Network.
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Network from Michael Rigley on Vimeo. □ Network by Michael Rigley >> http://vimeo.com/34750078 Information technology has…
Tweet for the sake of science
Public Library of Science - PLoS ONE Blog,
Social networking is a big deal, and not just for smart phone-addicted teens and reconnecting with long-lost friends. Twitter…
Researchers Use Twitter To Track Diseases And Public Health Issues
Better Health,
A researcher has used social media to track attitudes about vaccination and how they correlate with vaccination rates, in the…
Epidemiology and social media: conference fail
Aetiology,
I have written and deleted this post. Twice. But damn it, it needs to be said. I'm here in charming Montreal for the North…
Using Twitter to track flu outbreaks
The Decision Tree,
When public health officials track the outbreak of a virus, like H1N1, it takes time to get the story right. They have to…
Predicting flu in 140 characters or less
Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention,
Early on in the 2009 H1N1 epidemic, I posted about how some of our Iowa colleagues were tracking public interest in H1N1 (then…