ICT&health November 24, 2025
With vaccination rates continuing to decline in various countries and misinformation spreading virtually unchecked, the risk of recurring infectious diseases such as measles is once again rising significantly. In the United States and Canada, this has already led to new outbreaks of diseases that had been under control for decades. Scientists at the University of Waterloo have therefore developed a data-driven method that can help public health services intervene earlier and more accurately.
The researchers analysed how vaccine scepticism develops via social media and developed a model that considers these digital dynamics as an ecological system. Just as viruses spread among humans, misinformation can move rapidly between users on social platforms. ‘We see social dynamics as a contagious process,’...
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