Harnessing the Web to Track the Next Outbreak

By Aranka Anema, Carly R. Winokur, Chi Bahk, Sumiko Mekaru, Nicholas Preston, John S. Brownstein

Innovations in data science and disease surveillance are changing the way we respond to public health threats.

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November-December 2016

Volume 104, Number 6
Page 346

DOI: 10.1511/2016.123.346

On March 14, 2014, a French news site reported a strange fever in Macenta, a small village in Guinea. The story described a “new disease whose name is unknown” that caused victims to bleed from their orifices, and had already “killed eight people and contaminated several others.”

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