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Flu trends using twitter data, the first international workshop. The results show that incorporating cdcs ili and the twitters influenza data, using a suitable improved artificial tree optimizing the. Among those, 5000 random posts were selected for manual. Reducing the impact of seasonal influenza epidemics and other pandemics such as the h1n1 is of paramount importance for public health authorities.

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