Internet surveillance systems for early alerting of health threats

J P Linge; R Steinberger; T P Weber; R Yangarber; E van der Goot; D H Al Khudhairy; N I Stilianakis

doi:10.2807/ese.14.13.19162-en

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Internet surveillance systems for early alerting of health threats
J P Linge¹ , R Steinberger¹ , T P Weber¹ , R Yangarber² , E van der Goot¹ , D H Al Khudhairy¹ , N I Stilianakis¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, Ispra (VA), Italy ² Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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Citation style for this article: Linge J P, Steinberger R, Weber T P, Yangarber R, van der Goot E, Al Khudhairy D H, Stilianakis N I. Internet surveillance systems for early alerting of health threats. Euro Surveill. 2009;14(13):pii=19162. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.14.13.19162-en Received: 31 Mar 2009

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Abstract

In order to gather a comprehensive picture of potential epidemic threats, public health authorities increasingly rely on systems that perform epidemic intelligence (EI). EI makes use of information that originates from official sources such as national public health surveillance systems as well as from informal sources such as electronic media and web-based information tools.