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Early Flu Season Found Lurking in Social Data
Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com

A small start-up called Sick­weath­er says pub­lic tweets and Face­book mes­sages helped it declare an early start to this year’s U.S. flu sea­son, six weeks before the CDC.

Baltimore-based Sick­weath­er tweet­ed about the early flu sea­son on O…

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