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Chinese Social Media Reaction To The Mers-Cov And Avian Influenza A (H7n9) Outbreaks, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, King-Wa Fu, Yuchen Ying, Braydon Schaible, Yi Hao, Chung-Hong Chan, Zion Tsz-Ho Tse Dec 2013

Chinese Social Media Reaction To The Mers-Cov And Avian Influenza A (H7n9) Outbreaks, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, King-Wa Fu, Yuchen Ying, Braydon Schaible, Yi Hao, Chung-Hong Chan, Zion Tsz-Ho Tse

Epidemiology Faculty Publications

Background: As internet and social media use have skyrocketed, epidemiologists have begun to use online data such as Google query data and Twitter trends to track the activity levels of influenza and other infectious diseases. In China, Weibo is an extremely popular microblogging site that is equivalent to Twitter. Capitalizing on the wealth of public opinion data contained in posts on Weibo, this study used Weibo as a measure of the Chinese people’s reactions to two different outbreaks: the 2012 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak, and the 2013 outbreak of human infection of avian influenza A(H7N9) in China. …


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  • Social Contacts and Depression


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  • Preventive Interventions


Epidemiology News, Georgia Southern University Oct 2013

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  • Perceptions or Reality of Body Weight


Epidemiology News, Georgia Southern University Aug 2013

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  • Perceived Barriers


Epidemiology News, Georgia Southern University Jun 2013

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  • Health Risk Behaviors


Epidemiology News, Georgia Southern University May 2013

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  • Caring for Haitian Orphans with Aids


Epidemiology News, Georgia Southern University Feb 2013

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  • A Merged Model for Quality Improvement


Epidemiology News, Georgia Southern University Jan 2013

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  • Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening