Twitter helps Chicago find sources of food poisoning

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Twitter helps Chicago find sources of food poisoning

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/twitter-helps-chicago-sources-food-poisoning-210826156.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/0IhhyF4xeKUr6yAYPd8sTg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-08-26T210826Z_1_LYNXMPEA7P109_RTROPTP_2_TWITTER-IPO.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in Warsaw" align="left" title="People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in Warsaw" border="0" /></a>By Shereen Lehman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) â€" When Chicago health officials saw Twitter users complaining about local food poisoning episodes, they reached out on Twitter to those users and often ended up charging the restaurant in question with a violation. “We know that the majority of cases of foodborne outbreaks really never end up getting reported to the local health department anywhere in the country,” Dr. Bechara Choucair told Reuters Health in a phone call. “We realize the people might not pick up the phone and call the doctor, but they might go to Twitter and complain to the world that they got food poisoning from eating out,” he said. Choucair and his colleagues in the Chicago Department of Public Health wondered if there was some innovative way for them to identify new cases of foodborne outbreaks in Chicago that are regularly missed.</p><br clear="all"/>

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