Characterizing Ebola Transmission Patterns Based on Internet News Reports | Zendy

Julie M. Cleaton | Zendy; Cécile Viboud | Zendy; Lone Simonsen | Zendy; A. Magdalena Hurtado | Zendy; Gerardo Chowell | Zendy

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Characterizing Ebola Transmission Patterns Based on Internet News Reports

Author(s) -

Julie M. Cleaton,

Cécile Viboud,

Lone Simonsen,

A. Magdalena Hurtado,

Gerardo Chowell

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/civ748

Subject(s) - sierra leone , medicine , outbreak , context (archaeology) , epidemiology , ebola virus , case fatality rate , transmission (telecommunications) , contact tracing , psychological intervention , demography , attack rate , confidence interval , infectious disease (medical specialty) , environmental health , disease , virology , geography , socioeconomics , covid-19 , archaeology , engineering , sociology , psychiatry , electrical engineering

Detailed information on patient exposure, contact patterns, and discharge status is rarely available in real time from traditional surveillance systems in the context of an emerging infectious disease outbreak. Here, we validate the systematic collection of Internet news reports to characterize epidemiological patterns of Ebola virus disease (EVD) infections during the West African 2014-2015 outbreak.

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