Digital disease detection--harnessing the Web for public health surveillance - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2009 May 21;360(21):2153-5, 2157.

doi: 10.1056/NEJMp0900702. Epub 2009 May 7.

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Digital disease detection--harnessing the Web for public health surveillance

John S Brownstein et al. N Engl J Med. 2009.

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Screen Shot of HealthMap during the Recent Salmonella Typhimurium Outbreak

HealthMap displays 319 articles about the outbreak that has affected 38 U.S. states.

Infections with the Outbreak Strain of Salmonella Typhimurium, as reported by the CDC as of February 8, 2009

Lines show data from Google Insights for Search, representing a portion of Web searches based in the United States across all Google domains relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time and scaled to a maximum value of 100. The data have been standardized by subtracting the mean volume from the previous 12 months for each term.

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