Estimating the secondary attack rate and serial interval of influenza-like illnesses using social media

Knowledge of the secondary attack rate (SAR) and serial interval (SI) of influenza is important for assessing the severity of seasonal epidemics of the virus. To date, such estimates have required extensive surveys of target populations. Here, we propose a method for estimating the intrafamily SAR and SI from postings on the Twitter social network. This estimate is derived from a large number of people reporting ILI symptoms in them and\or their immediate family members.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses

• Publication date

  2015-06-09

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/irv.12321PMID 25962320PMCID 4474495
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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