Forecasting Zika Incidence in the 2016 Latin America Outbreak Combining Traditional Disease Surveillance with Search, Social Media, and News Report Data

Sarah F. McGough; John S. Brownstein; Jared B. Hawkins; Mauricio Santillana

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0005295

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Forecasting Zika Incidence in the 2016 Latin America Outbreak Combining Traditional Disease Surveillance with Search, Social Media, and News Report Data

Sarah F. McGough ,

* E-mail: sfm341@g.harvard.edu (SFM); msantill@g.harvard.edu (MS)

Affiliations Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Computational Epidemiology Group, Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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John S. Brownstein,

Affiliations Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Computational Epidemiology Group, Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Jared B. Hawkins,

Affiliations Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Computational Epidemiology Group, Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Mauricio Santillana

* E-mail: sfm341@g.harvard.edu (SFM); msantill@g.harvard.edu (MS)

Affiliations Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Computational Epidemiology Group, Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Forecasting Zika Incidence in the 2016 Latin America Outbreak Combining Traditional Disease Surveillance with Search, Social Media, and News Report Data

Sarah F. McGough,
John S. Brownstein,
Jared B. Hawkins,
Mauricio Santillana

Published: January 13, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005295

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