Dengue prediction by the web: Tweets are a useful tool for estimating and forecasting Dengue at country and city level.

• Main Authors: Cecilia de Almeida Marques-Toledo (Author), Carolin Marlen Degener (Author), Livia Vinhal (Author), Giovanini Coelho (Author), Wagner Meira (Author), Claudia Torres Codeço (Author), Mauro Martins Teixeira (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Infectious diseases are a leading threat to public health. Accurate and timely monitoring of disease risk and progress can reduce their impact. Mentioning a disease in social networks is correlated with physician visits by patients, and can be used to estimate disease activity. Dengue is the fastest...