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“Google Flu Trends” and Emergency Department Triage Data Predicted the 2009 Pandemic H1N1 Waves in Manitoba

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Spatial and Temporal Comparison of Perceived Risks and Confirmed Cases of Lyme Disease: An Exploratory Study of Google Trends

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Analysis of Google Trends to monitor new psychoactive substance. Is there an added value?

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Usability and Feasibility of a Smartphone App to Assess Human Behavioral Factors Associated with Tick Exposure (The Tick App): Quantitative and Qualitative Study

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Using Digital Surveillance to Examine the Impact of Public Figure Pancreatic Cancer Announcements on Media and Search Query Outcomes

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Can Users Search Trends Predict People Scares or Disease Breakout? An Examination of Infectious Skin Diseases in the United States

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Augmented Functional Analysis of Variance (A-fANOVA): Theory and Application to Google Trends for Detecting Differences in Abortion Drugs Queries

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Capturing public interest toward new tools for controlling human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection exploiting data from Google Trends

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COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on New Economy Development and Societal Change

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Patterns of Google search behavior for epilepsy and seizures in the Philippines: An infodemiological study

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Seasonal Trends in Pediatric Respiratory Illnesses

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Making Only America Great? Non-U.S. Market Reactions to U.S. Tax Reform

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Is Google Trends a reliable tool for digital epidemiology? Insights from different clinical settings

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Online Health Information Seeking for Mpox in Endemic and Nonendemic Countries: Google Trends Study

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XXXIII International Congress of the European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists (EAPCCT) 28–31 May 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark

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One Health : 2019

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The utility of Google Trends for epidemiological research: Lyme disease as an example

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