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. 2009 May 21;360(21):2153-5, 2157.
doi: 10.1056/NEJMp0900702. Epub 2009 May 7.

Digital disease detection--harnessing the Web for public health surveillance

John S Brownstein  1 , Clark C Freifeld, Lawrence C Madoff
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Digital disease detection--harnessing the Web for public health surveillance

John S Brownstein et al. N Engl J Med. .
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Screen Shot of HealthMap during the Recent Salmonella Typhimurium Outbreak
HealthMap displays 319 articles about the outbreak that has affected 38 U.S. states.
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Infections with the Outbreak Strain of Salmonella Typhimurium, as reported by the CDC as of February 8, 2009
Lines show data from Google Insights for Search, representing a portion of Web searches based in the United States across all Google domains relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time and scaled to a maximum value of 100. The data have been standardized by subtracting the mean volume from the previous 12 months for each term.
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