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Twitter Flu Map 2012

Caption: This map indicates the prevalence of flu in the United States in the first week of January 2012, as measured by the volume of flu-related tweets. States with higher flu rates are colored in a darker red. Last year's flu affected relatively few Americans.

Credit: Mark Dredze/JHU

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