Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Postcards From The MERS Twitterverse

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# 9748   Between the rising case counts of the past couple of weeks, yesterday’s WHO Mission statement which cited critical lapses i...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

Referral : Mackay On Fake/False Ebola Images

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Credit VDU Blog       # 8992   One of the tools we bloggers use to glean ` real-time’ information is to filter twitter using ...
Monday, April 14, 2014

The Battle To Control Online MERS Messaging

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    # 8471   While we’ve a ( possibly brief ) lull in new MERS reports out of the Middle East one of the fascinating sideshows to...
Friday, April 11, 2014

UAE Ministry Of Interior Announces 6 MERS-CoV Cases (1 Fatality)

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AL AIN (aka AL AYN) population 568,000 (2010)   UPDATED 0800 EDT:    Although earlier reports were ambiguous, additional English...
Wednesday, April 09, 2014

MERS, The Twitterverse & MOH Damage Control

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  # 8454   A sign of increasing concern among residents of Saudi Arabia is that Arabic social media – in particular twitter – has...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

WHO: Ebola an `Outbreak, Definitely Not An Epidemic’

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  # 8414   While it may be a Saturday morning, officials at the World Health Organization ( and other agencies) are nonetheles...
Monday, March 24, 2014

WHO Twitter Messaging On Ebola

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Credit World Health Organization     # 8397   The news regarding the Ebola outbreak in the West African nation of Guinea continue...
Sunday, May 12, 2013

WHO: Messaging On nCoV – May 12th

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# 7264   The World Health Organization continues to publish what information they have on the emerging novel coronavirus situatio...
Saturday, April 13, 2013

WHO: H7N9 Risk Assessment & Messaging

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Regions Reporting H7N9   # 7130     The World Health Organization has released a Situation update and a Risk Assessment doc...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

ECDC: Live #TBChat On Twitter Friday March 22nd

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  Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring report - ECDC   # 7019     I’ve mentioned a couple of times this week that next Su...
Sunday, November 04, 2012

Caveat Twitter

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      # 6693     As if the job facing local, state, and Federal emergency officials dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane/Hybr...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Drinking From The Twitter Fire Hose

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    # 6387     Every day I weed through literally hundreds of news stories, press releases, journal articles, and blog posts lo...
Monday, September 19, 2011

CDC’s Contagion Twitter Chat Continues Today

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    # 5852   A brief reminder, the CDC’s   Twitter chat on how they would handle a real-life disease outbreak similar to what is fi...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

CDC To Hold Live Contagion Chat Tomorrow On Twitter

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    # 5842   The buzz generated by the release last week of Steven Soderbergh’s movie `Contagion’ has led to an increased public...
Thursday, June 02, 2011

Follow The National Hurricane Center (NHC) On Twitter

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    # 5595   With the opening of the 2011 Atlantic & Pacific Hurricane seasons, the NHC began issuing update alerts on TWITTER ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Twitter Volunteers Translate Emergency Manual

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    # 5402   http://nip0.wordpress.com/   While there may be some who doubt the value and intentions of social media durin...
Sunday, February 06, 2011

Getting My Daily Twitter Fix

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      #5291   For those of us who remember the single-line BBS ( bulletin board systems ) of the early 1980s, back when MS-DOS ...