Mapping tweets to a known disease epidemiology; a case study of Lyme disease in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland
Journal of Biomedical Informatics: X(2019)
Abstract
•Twitter offers the potential to be an adjunct disease surveillance tool.•Tweets about Lyme disease matched the known epidemiology in the UK and Ireland.•Disease mentions on Twitter can be analysed to locate possible disease hotspots.•Analysis of a Twitter user’s profile has merit for a geographical analysis approach.•Epidemiological Twitter analytics may be biased by media stories.
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Key words
Twitter,Social media,Lyme disease,Lyme borreliosis,UK,Republic of Ireland
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