- by Alison
It’s nearly five years since the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) published its report Dengue: Turning up the volume on a silent disaster, which in part explores the burden of dengue. Noting that “approximately 60% of dengue-related costs are not directly associated with…
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- by Gary Finnegan
We speak to Mauricio Santillana, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard University, about his new paper on the use of Google searches in disease surveillance. Not only are search engines a vital tool for fighting dengue, they connect the community in a novel way, opening the…
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- by Gary Finnegan
Today’s increasingly connected world offers us an opportunity using digital surveillance tools to gain a true, timely picture of dengue activity around the globe. Data gleaned from social media, online searches, mobile phone tracking, crowdsourcing and more have the potential to fill gaps in epidemiological…
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