# Tracking Dengue using Internet Searches July 31, 2017 Samuel Kou is one of the co-authors of "Advances in using Internet searches to track dengue” which appeared in PLOS Computational Biology in 2017. Media coverage includes [CNN](http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/20/technology/tracking-diseases-google/index.html), PLOS press release at [Science Daily](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170720142243.htm) and [Eurekalert](https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/p-gsc071317.php), and [Deutsches Arzteblatt](https://www.aerzteblatt.de/nachrichten/77072/Dengue-Programm-stellt-Praevalenz-mithilfe-von-Google-fast-in-Echtzeit-fest) (in German).. Samuel's collaborators are Shihao Yang, a Ph.D. candidate in the Statistics Department, as well as Fred Lu, John Brownstein, Nicholas Brooke and Mauricio Santillana. Weblink to the paper is available here: