Monkeypox goes viral: measuring the misinformation outbreak on Twitter

Yeimer Ortiz-Martínez; Jheinner Sarmiento; D Katterine Bonilla-Aldana; Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales

doi:10.3855/jidc.16907

Monkeypox goes viral: measuring the misinformation outbreak on Twitter

Authors

Yeimer Ortiz-Martínez Department of Internal Medicine, 469618 Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9035-5654
Jheinner Sarmiento Faculty of Health Sciences, 28000 Universidad de Sucre, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7434-3263
D Katterine Bonilla-Aldana Latin American Network on Monkeypox Virus research (LAMOVI), Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9773-2192

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3855/jidc.16907

Keywords:

Monkeypox, reemerging, zoonosis, concern, global

Author Biography

Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales, Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia

MD, MSc, DipEd, DTM&H, FRSTM&H(Lon), FFTM RCPS(Glasg), FACE, FISAC, HonDSc

Researcher in Public Health and Tropical, Parasitic, Infectious and Emerging Diseases.

Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.

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2022-07-28

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Ortiz-Martínez Y, Sarmiento J, Bonilla-Aldana DK, Rodríguez-Morales AJ (2022) Monkeypox goes viral: measuring the misinformation outbreak on Twitter. J Infect Dev Ctries 16:1218–1220. doi: 10.3855/jidc.16907

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Vol. 16 No. 07: July 2022

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