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Norovirus Disease Surveillance Using Google Internet Query Share Data

Rishi Desai
Aron J. Hall
Benjamin A. Lopman
Yair Shimshoni
Marcus Rennick
Niv Efron
Manish M. Patel
Umesh D. Parashar
Clinical Infectious Diseases (2012)

Abstract

Google Internet query share (IQS) data for gastroenteritis-related search terms correlated strongly with contemporaneous national (R2 = 0.70) and regional (R2 = 0.74) norovirus surveillance data in the United States. IQS data may facilitate rapid identification of norovirus season onset, elevated peak activity, and potential emergence of novel strains.

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