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Twitter data accurately tracked Haiti cholera outbreak

Social media could give epidemiologists a head start on outbreaks.

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Hirschfeld, D. Twitter data accurately tracked Haiti cholera outbreak. Nature (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2012.9770

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