Table 1.
Examples of various types of disease tweets (which contribute to information about epidemic) and non-disease tweets
| Type | Event | Tweet text |
|---|---|---|
| Disease tweets (which contribute to information about epidemic) | ||
| Ebola | Early #ebola symptoms include fever headache body aches cough stomach pain | |
| vomiting and diarrhea | ||
| Symptom | MERS | Middle east respiratory syndrome symptoms include cough fever can lead to |
| pneumonia & kidney failure | ||
| Ebola | Ebola is a deadly disease prevent it today drink / bath with salty warm water | |
| Prevention | MERS | #mers prevention tip 3/5—avoid touching your eyes nose and mouth with |
| unwashed hands | ||
| Disease | Ebola | Airborne cdc now confirms concerns of airborne transmission of ebola |
| transmission | MERS | World health a camel reasons corona virus transmission |
| Ebola | Dozens flock to new liberia ebola treatment center new liberia ebola treatment | |
| center receives more than 100 | ||
| Treatment | MERS | cn-old drugs tested to fight new disease mers |
| Death | Ebola | The largest #ebola outbreak on record has killed 4000 + |
| report | MERS | Saudia Arabia reports 102 deaths from mers disease |
| Non-disease tweets | ||
| Not | Ebola | lies then he came to attack nigeria with ebola disease what is govt doing about |
| relevant | that too | |
| MERS | good question unfortunately i have not the answer but something to investigate | |
| fomites #mers | ||