Monitoring public interest toward pertussis outbreaks: an extensive Google Trends –based analysis

Pertussis is a vaccine-preventable disease. Despite this, it remains a major health problem among children in developing countries and in recent years, has re-emerged and has led to considerable outbreaks. Pertussis surveillance is of paramount importance; however, classical monitoring approaches are plagued by some shortcomings, such as considerable time delay and potential underestimation/underreporting of cases.
Source: Public Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: Original Research Source Type: research