Avoid Oklahoma! Social-media map warns of flu hotspots | CNET
Track the germy spread of influenza with a social-media map of tweets and videos complaining of symptoms and outbreaks.
geopatterns Flu detector - tracking epidemics on Twitter
Flu detector uses tweets (i.e. posts on Twitter) to infer the flu rate in several UK regions. The applied methodology is described in the following papers:
1. Tracking the flu pandemic by monitoring the Social Web
2. Flu detector - Tracking epidemics on TwitterResults are verified with official Influenza like Illness (ILI) rates from the Health Protection Agency (HPA).
World Community Grid: Influenza Antiviral Drug Search Project
The mission: to find new drugs that can stop the spread of an influenza infection in the body.
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Google Uses Web Searches to Track Flu’s Spread
Turns out a lot of ailing Americans enter phrases like “flu symptoms” into Google and other search engines before they call their doctors. That simple act, multiplied across millions of keyboards in homes around the country, has given rise to a new early warning system for fast-spreading flu outbreaks, called Google Flu Trends.
