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Twitter Revealed Epidemic Two Weeks Before Health Officials [STUDY]
Health providers have suspected for some time that social media might be an early indicator of an epidemic. Now they have proof. In particular, a new report shows that Twitter provided an early account of the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti. According to the study published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene , Internet news and social media were faster transmitters of information in tracking the cholera epidemic in Haiti than health officials.16% of Cellphones Have Poop on Them
Worried your cellphone may fall into the 16% with poop on it? You should be scared — not just of the germs lurking on your mobile, but on all your favorite tech gizmos. Before you type anything else into your keyboard, consider this: Keyboards, on average, are five times dirtier and have 60 times more germs on them than toilet seats. They are 150 times over the acceptable limit for bacteria.
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