-
Monitoring influenza activity in Europe with Google Flu Trends: comparison with the findings of sentinel physician networks – results for 2009-10
-
View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsA Valdiviatonyvald hotmail.com
-
View Citation Hide Citation
Citation style for this article: . Monitoring influenza activity in Europe with Google Flu Trends: comparison with the findings of sentinel physician networks – results for 2009-10. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(29):pii=19621. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.15.29.19621-en Received: 02 Jul 2010
- Previous Article
- Table of Contents
- Next Article
Abstract
The number of Internet searches has recently been used by Google to estimate the influenza incidence in the United States. We examined the correlation between the Google Flu Trends tool and sentinel networks estimates in several European countries during the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic and found a good correlation between estimates and peak incidence timing, with the highest peaks in countries where Internet is most frequently used for health-related searching. Although somehow limited, Google could be a valuable tool for syndromic surveillance.
Full text loading...