CORONAVIRUS | Misinformation means bad advice can circulate quickly and change human behaviour to take greater risks, says professor Paul Hunter.
The rise of “fake news”, including misinformation and inaccurate advice on social media, could make disease outbreaks such as the covid-19 coronavirus epidemic currently spreading in China worse, according to research published today.
“When it comes to coronavirus, there has been a lot of speculation, misinformation and fake news circulating on the Internet about how the virus originated, what causes it and how it is spread,” said Paul Hunter, a UEA professor of medicine who co-led the study. In their research, Hunter’s team focused on three other infectious diseases - flu, monkeypox and norovirus – but said their findings could also be useful for dealing with the coronavirus outbreak.
For the studies - published today in a separate peer-reviewed journal - the researchers created theoretical simulations of outbreaks of norovirus, flu and monkeypox.
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