Evaluating Google Flu Trends in Latin America: Important Lessons for the Next Phase of Digital Disease Detection

Conclusions. We note substantial inaccuracies with GFT-predicted influenza activity compared with FluNet throughout Latin America, particularly among tropical countries with irregular influenza seasonality. Our findings offer valuable lessons for future Internet-based biosurveillance tools.

Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases - December 15, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Pollett, S., Boscardin, W. J., Azziz-Baumgartner, E., Tinoco, Y. O., Soto, G., Romero, C., Kok, J., Biggerstaff, M., Viboud, C., Rutherford, G. W. Tags: ARTICLES AND COMMENTARIES Source Type: research