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Flu outbreaks could be monitored by internet searches

By Hicbd
Mon Nov 26 2012 11:08 am

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) can take up to two weeks to collect and release survey data about where and when the flu is spreading around the country. As shown by Google's Flu Trends, internet search tools could use real-time data to identify regions around the world experiencing a high number of flu-related searches and produce results that correlate closely with CDC data.

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http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/10/1001_google_apps/11.htm
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/tracking-flu-trends.html
http://www.google.org/flutrends/

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Disease Control

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