For general information or a short insight about your specific theme and it's complexity, using general search engines like google or exalead is a good way to start. Google.com alone lists more than 24 million search results with the search term "Influenza".
Data acquisition with medical or other search engines
To obtain a manageable amount of useful and specific publications or articles, it is advisable to use a modificated search, stressing certain categories and ignoring certain phrases.
For example our theme influenza, which are the essential facts that I need to build a disease model?
- Which course and symptoms of the disease are there?
- Complications? What is the mortality rate of influenza?
- Which therapies are useful and are applicable?
- Treatment costs?
- Are there possibilities to obviate influenza?
- Are there local differences of the course and nature?
- Is it important to use only newsworthy sources?
One can find several answers in the Wikipedia article Wikipedia with the search term "influenza". Wikipedia is an established source of information, even in medical science, though one should not rely on these. Written by laities it is possible that the articles are incomplete or even complete wrong. Sources as listed in our references to this article, are much more reliable.
What is to be minded before selecting a source of information
- Is the reference up-to-date?
- Does it contain the information I was looking for?
- Is the data origin credibly?
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