By: Susan-Marie Cronkite, PhD. “During these times, there was a pestilence, by which the whole human race came near to being annihilated…..It started among the Egyptians, then it moved to Palestine and from there spread over the whole world…..” Procopius, History of the Wars, II.xxii (Available on-line: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/542procopius-plague.html) Epidemics were a well-known event in the
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From Google.org….. Google has found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity in a state up to two weeks faster than traditional systems. Read more at: http://www.google.org/flutrends/ and http://www.google.org/about/flutrends/how.html How does this work? Each week, millions of users around the
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