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Advances in using Internet searches to track dengue.


ABSTRACT: Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease that threatens over half of the world's population. Despite being endemic to more than 100 countries, government-led efforts and tools for timely identification and tracking of new infections are still lacking in many affected areas. Multiple methodologies that leverage the use of Internet-based data sources have been proposed as a way to complement dengue surveillance efforts. Among these, dengue-related Google search trends have been shown to correlate with dengue activity. We extend a methodological framework, initially proposed and validated for flu surveillance, to produce near real-time estimates of dengue cases in five countries/states: Mexico, Brazil, Thailand, Singapore and Taiwan. Our result shows that our modeling framework can be used to improve the tracking of dengue activity in multiple locations around the world.

SUBMITTER: Yang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5519005 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Advances in using Internet searches to track dengue.

Yang Shihao S   Kou Samuel C SC   Lu Fred F   Brownstein John S JS   Brooke Nicholas N   Santillana Mauricio M  

PLoS computational biology 20170720 7


Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease that threatens over half of the world's population. Despite being endemic to more than 100 countries, government-led efforts and tools for timely identification and tracking of new infections are still lacking in many affected areas. Multiple methodologies that leverage the use of Internet-based data sources have been proposed as a way to complement dengue surveillance efforts. Among these, dengue-related Google search trends have been shown to correlate with d  ...[more]

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