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Using Advanced Keyword Strings to Predict a Pandemic

Authors: H. Dhaliwal

When a new virus emerges, news articles will be written about it on the internet on first word of it. Furthermore, users on social media sites (e.g. reddit) will give advice on how to prepare for a pandemic with items to buy. Therefore searching the internet using certain keywords to see if such articles or posts exist may help determine if a new virus exists and this process may be automated and make use of artificial intelligence or a human may scan through the results. This may prevent a possible future pandemic. For example the following keyword string can be used for each week (keywords were extracted from web page links below).

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