Searching the Web for dengue: Early detection and monitoring of outbreaks of an emerging mosquito-borne virus

Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Google.org have found Web-based search data to be a viable source of information for early detection and monitoring of outbreaks of dengue, an emerging mosquito-borne virus found in tropical areas of the world. Because search data allows the capture of disease-related queries in near real time, it could help public health officials in the more than 100 countries affected by dengue respond more quickly to nascent epidemics.

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