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ArticleFoods (Basel, Switzerland)2023

A Novel Foodborne Illness Detection and Web Application Tool Based on Social Media.

Dandan Tao, Ruofan Hu, Dongyu Zhang, Jasmine Laber, Anne Lapsley, Timothy Kwan, Liam Rathke, Elke Rundensteiner, Hao Feng

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Article in Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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9 authors.

Dandan TaoVanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Ruofan HuData Science Program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA.
Dongyu ZhangData Science Program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2099-5837
Jasmine LaberData Science Program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA.
Anne LapsleyData Science Program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA.
Timothy KwanData Science Program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA.
Liam RathkeDepartment of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA.
Elke RundensteinerData Science Program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5375-9254
Hao FengCollege of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, North Carolina A & T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA.

Funding

United States Department of Agriculture 2020-67021-32459
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Foodborne diseases and outbreaks are significant threats to public health, resulting in millions of illnesses and deaths worldwide each year. Traditional foodborne disease surveillance systems rely on data from healthcare facilities, laboratories, and government agencies to monitor and control outbreaks. Recently, there is a growing recognition of the potential value of incorporating social media data into surveillance systems. This paper explores the use of social media data as an alternative surveillance tool for foodborne diseases by collecting large-scale Twitter data, building food safety data storage models, and developing a novel frontend foodborne illness surveillance system. Descriptive and predictive analyses of the collected data were conducted in comparison with ground truth data reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The results indicate that the most implicated food categories and the distributions from both Twitter and the CDC were similar. The system developed with Twitter data could complement traditional foodborne disease surveillance systems by providing near-real-time information on foodborne illnesses, implicated foods, symptoms, locations, and other information critical for detecting a potential foodborne outbreak.

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bid datafoodborne diseasesfoodborne outbreaksmachine learningPostgreSQLsocial media datatext miningTwitter

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PMID37509861
PMCPMC10379420

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