Influenza (The Flu)

Swine origin influenza (swine flu).

Swine origin influenza was first recognized in the border area of Mexico and United States in April 2009 and during a short span of two months became the first pandemic. The currently circulating strain of swine origin influenza virus of the H1N1 strain has undergone triple reassortment and contains genes from the avian, swine and human viruses. It is transmitted by droplets or fomites. Incubat...

Pandemic influenza (H1N1) 2009 (swine flu).

Influenza Forecasting with Google Flu Trends

BACKGROUND We developed a practical influenza forecast model based on real-time, geographically focused, and easy to access data, designed to provide individual medical centers with advanced warning of the expected number of influenza cases, thus allowing for sufficient time to implement interventions. Secondly, we evaluated the effects of incorporating a real-time influenza surveillance system...

Twitter Catches The Flu: Detecting Influenza Epidemics using Twitter

With the recent rise in popularity and scale of social media, a growing need exists for systems that can extract useful information from huge amounts of data. We address the issue of detecting influenza epidemics. First, the proposed system extracts influenza related tweets using Twitter API. Then, only tweets that mention actual influenza patients are extracted by the support vector machine (S...

Getting the flu: 5 key facts about influenza virus evolution

1 Center for Genomics & Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, 2 Tisch Cancer Institute, Departments of Genetics and Genomics, Medicine, Oncological Sciences, and Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine of Mt Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, 3 Department of Epidemiology, College of Global Public Health, New York...