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Social media for tracking disease outbreaks – fad or way of the future?

  • Written by: C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Head of the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Australia
imageTimeliness is important for detecting epidemics.yochika photographer/

Social media has revolutionised how we communicate. In this series, we look at how it has changed the media, politics, health, education and the law.

Infectious diseases kill more than 17 million people every year. Large outbreaks, known as epidemics, are becoming more frequent....

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