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Swine Flu Misinformation Runs Rampant on Twitter

According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the swine flu is a type-A influenza virus that affects pigs, manifesting itself as a respiratory illness before typically resulting in outbreaks among swine. Of course, as most of us now know, the disease can also spread to humans. So far, 40 U.S. citizens have fallen victim to the virus this year. According to the CDC, only one person remains ...

Google Fights Flu with Search Data

Leave it to Google to come up with a way to help combat the spread of disease with nothing more than some search terms and an armada of computers. The folks at the Google Predict and Prevent team discovered, using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that there was a direct correlation between searches for flu related terms and symptoms. The CDC already collects data ...