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From: Chinese social media reaction to the MERS-CoV and avian influenza A(H7N9) outbreaks

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Chinese online community's discussion related to SARS in 2012 and its reaction to WHO's 1st press release on MERS-CoV on September 23, 2012. Panel (a) Keywords: “SARS”; “冠状病毒” (coronavirus). Panel (b) Keywords: “非典” (Feidian); “沙士” (SARS). The daily numbers of posts that contain a keyword per million posts in the sample of about 50,000 users that have ≥10,000 followers, from January 1 to December 31, 2012, are shown here. For Weibo posts that have more than one keyword, they were grouped under the first keyword in the post. This figure shows that while the keywords “SARS”, “冠状病毒” (coronavirus) or “沙士” (SARS), were sensitive to the news of MERS-CoV (peak 3), “非典” (Feidian, short for fei-dianxing-feiyan, translated, “atypical pneumonia,” is the layman’s term for SARS in China) is not.a

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