MRSA infection rates tracked by Google
Infection Control Weekly Monitor, June 8, 2011
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Big brother is MRSA watching. And its name is Google. A paper published in the June issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases found that Google searches can help track the spread of MRSA with near real-time information.
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