More Diseases Tracked by Using Google Trends
Emerging infectious diseasesPublished 1 August 2009Open access
Camille Pelat, Clément Turbelin, Avner Bar‐Hen, Antoine Flahault, Alain-Jacques Valleron
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On the basis of trends of Google queries, these authors put their results into practice by creating a Web page dedicated to influenza surveillance, but did not develop the same approach for other diseases.
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