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BluegrassStateBlues

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Mon Oct 14, 2013, 01:44 PM

Oct 2013

The flu spreads fast, but tweets spread faster, so health organizations and federal agencies, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are beginning to make use of predictive analytics of social data to monitor emerging situations like this season’s deadly influenza epidemic.

The CDC is among agencies that now utilize social insights gleaned from Google Flu Trends and MappyHealth– predictive tools that take collective web searches and tweets on flu-related symptoms and correlate the data on regional maps. CDC partners with Google and MappyHealth, which won the Department of Health and Human Services NowTrending2012 challenge, to use social media surveillance in the service of public health.

http://fcw.com/articles/2013/01/25/flu-social-media.aspx

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What If a Flu Breaks Out When CDC Can�t Track It? [View all] xchrom Oct 2013 OP

Oh whatever. A little flu never killed anyone. progressoid Oct 2013 #1

Sure. That's a states'-rights issue. Orsino Oct 2013 #19

Twitter, Facebook, CVS and Walgreens will know first FarCenter Oct 2013 #2

sounds like a bunch of horseshit. nt xchrom Oct 2013 #4

Why? Sounds reasonable to me. GreenStormCloud Oct 2013 #5

DIY epidemiology analysis xchrom Oct 2013 #7

Except many people with a common cold use flu remedies. Ikonoklast Oct 2013 #10

Could Facebook Warn You Before You Get the Flu? FarCenter Oct 2013 #6

it sounds like the USA is forgetting the melm00se Oct 2013 #9

Yep. BluegrassStateBlues Oct 2013 #12

Epidemiologists studying exactly that seem to disagree with you, but hey. (nt) Posteritatis Oct 2013 #15

epidemiologists know what the fuck they're looking at, but hey...nt xchrom Oct 2013 #20

Thank you for agreeing with me! (nt) Posteritatis Oct 2013 #21

It's already breaking out. lonestarnot Oct 2013 #3

Beat me to it! graywarrior Oct 2013 #8

That's actually Cancer. Ikonoklast Oct 2013 #11

Ooohhh, sorry! graywarrior Oct 2013 #13

You say Tea Party', I say ' Cancer'...both are virulent blights on humanity. Ikonoklast Oct 2013 #14

NOW we're getting clear! graywarrior Oct 2013 #17

I'd describe the Tea Party more in terms of projectile Tourette's. (nt) Posteritatis Oct 2013 #16

Maybe we can ask the WHO to step in. kentauros Oct 2013 #18