THE NZ Ministry of Health is teaming up with Massey University to investigate social media as a means of anticipating flu and other infectious disease epidemics and outbreaks.
It is expected that trends visible on platforms like Twitter and Facebook could yield valuable early alerts to forthcoming health issues.
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