Table 1.
Novel data streams used for capturing public reaction to Zika epidemic outbreak.
Fig 1.
Monthly normalized data of web-searches and social network interactions related to Zika retrieved from Google Trends, Google News, Wikitrends, YouTube and Twitter from January 2004 to June 2016 (1a) and from November 2015 to October 2016 (1b).
Fig 2.
Google Trends curves as Relatives Search Volumes (RSVs) for “Zika” and “Zika virus” (as “search term” or “search interest”) from January 2004 to June 2016 (2a) and from November 2015 to October 2016 (2b).
Fig 3.
Global interest for Zika (3a) and Zika virus-related search terms (3b and 3c): internet activities from November 2015 to October 2016 according to country (the map was freely accessible and modifiable at the link https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carte_du_monde_vierge_(Allemagnes_s%C3%A9par%C3%A9es).svg).
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Table 2.
Zika and Zika virus related Google Trends search queries at global level, November 2015 –October 2016.
Table 3.
Spearman’s correlation between all novel data streams.
Table 4.
Spearman’s correlation between Google Trends-generated Relative Search Volumes (RSVs) and “real-world” epidemiological data, at country level.