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On Twitter, Anti-vaccination Sentiments Spread More Easily than Pro-vaccination Sentiments

Katrina Voss
Phys.org
April 5, 2013

On Twitter, a popular microblogging and social-networking service, statements about vaccines may have unexpected effects—positive messages may backfire, according to a team of Penn State University researchers led by Marcel Salathé, an assistant professor of biology. The team tracked the pro-vaccine and anti-vaccine messages to which Twitter users were exposed and then observed how those users expressed their own sentiments about a new vaccine for combating influenza [...]

Will it go pandemic like in 1918? Concern grows over H1N1 outbreak in Bolivia, 873 cases have been reported across the country; The current vaccine (California/7/2009) for H1N1 influenza might be losing its effectiveness in 2011

An epidemic of H1N1 flu has infected almost 900 people and claimed 11 lives in Bolivia, health officials said Tuesday.

Although most of the cases occurred in the last few weeks, the outbreak does not rise to the level of a national epidemic, officials said.

“At the national level, the situation is under control. The most affected area is in the west,” Johnny Rada, director of the ministry of health’s epidemiology service, [...]

African swine fever ‘may spread to Europe’

MILAN (Reuters) – African swine fever (ASF), a viral disease harmless to people but lethal to pigs, is likely to spread beyond Russia and the Caucasus region into Europe, the United Nations’ food agency said on Thursday.

ASF, for which there is no vaccine, is now established in Georgia, Armenia and southern Russia, with an increasing number of long-distance jump outbreaks in northern areas this year, [...]

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Will it go pandemic like in 1918? Concern grows over H1N1 outbreak in Bolivia, 873 cases have been reported across the country; The current vaccine (California/7/2009) for H1N1 influenza might be losing its effectiveness in 2011

African swine fever ‘may spread to Europe’

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