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in the age of big data, web search engines will be available for disease prediction, based on the above ideas, Chinese CDC is planning Chinese first flu prediction system.

recently, in the "2014 Tsinghua · Yang Sen public health day", deputy director of the CDC China high Fu said, China CDC is working with Baidu cooperation, using the Internet to search data matching engine data and disease monitoring, forecasting the future incidence of seasonal flu trends.

early this year put into use

yesterday, the Beijing News reporter from the infectious disease prevention Cheap North Carolina Basketball Jerseys and control China CDC understands, flu prediction system is still in the research stage began to lock the part of big data, by the end of this year or early next year can put into use, predictable seasonal flu a months or weeks ahead of time, to help the epidemic outbreak area will make prevention strategies remind the disease control department, prepared in advance "sniper" epidemic measures.

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data to predict incidence of Cheap UCLA Bruins Jerseys disease? Gao Fu introduced, when people are sick, can search related symptoms or medication, treatment plan through the network search engine. Such as the flu outbreak, when the invasion to a certain place, local people will frequently search for "cough", "have a fever" flu related keywords. If the monitored for these keywords, if an area of many IP addresses or mobile phone number on the "flu" relevant keyword search of higher density, more frequent, the possibility that the outbreaks of the disease of the greater.

forecast needs and the actual epidemic monitoring contrast

"Of course,

data monitoring, just on the development trend of the disease monitoring, can not replace medical institutions to monitor the specific cases, can not replace the epidemiological investigation, Cheap California Golden Bears Jerseys the three will complement each other." High Fu said, large data to forecast future influenza epidemic, also need real epidemic monitoring data and influenza surveillance network of repeated comparison, verification, to gradually put into use.

as early as 2008, Google engine began to predict influenza using a large data. At the end of last year, America Columbia University also announced the development of new influenza forecasting system. According to media reports, USA researchers to model test on the 108 seat city in America in the years 2012 -2013 flu season, discovered that they could mean two or four weeks earlier the accurate prediction of more Cheap Creighton Bluejays Jerseys than 60% of the city's flu season arrival time.

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China CDC researchers said, the data will only be used for research and forecast the trend, but not to disclose personal information.

high Fu think, not just for the flu, in the future, research on the haze and healthy relationship, and the prevention of food poisoning, digestive tract diseases, prevention and control of tobacco and so may need large data support. (reporter Wei Mingyan)