An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

BRILLIANT, Lawrence Brent "Larry"

2 entries
  • 13727

The management of smallpox eradication in India.

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1985.


Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › India, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox , INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › History of Smallpox
  • 13728

Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data.

Nature, 457, 1012-1014, 2009.

Abstract
"Seasonal influenza epidemics are a major public health concern, causing tens of millions of respiratory illnesses and 250,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide each year1. In addition to seasonal influenza, a new strain of influenza virus against which no previous immunity exists and that demonstrates human-to-human transmission could result in a pandemic with millions of fatalities2. Early detection of disease activity, when followed by a rapid response, can reduce the impact of both seasonal and pandemic influenza3,4. One way to improve early detection is to monitor health-seeking behaviour in the form of queries to online search engines, which are submitted by millions of users around the world each day. Here we present a method of analysing large numbers of Google search queries to track influenza-like illness in a population. Because the relative frequency of certain queries is highly correlated with the percentage of physician visits in which a patient presents with influenza-like symptoms, we can accurately estimate the current level of weekly influenza activity in each region of the United States, with a reporting lag of about one day. This approach may make it possible to use search queries to detect influenza epidemics in areas with a large population of web search users."

Full text available from Nature.com at this link. Order of authorship in the original publication: Ginsburg, Mohebbi, ... Brilliant.



Subjects: Biomedical Informatics, COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology, EPIDEMIOLOGY, EPIDEMIOLOGY › Pandemics › Influenza