Traditional influenza surveillance relies on reports of influenzalike illness (ILI) by healthcare providers, capturing individuals who seek medical care and missing those who may search, post, and tweet about their illnesses instead. Existing research has shown some promise of using data from Google, Twitter, and Wikipedia for influenza surveillance, but with conflicting findings, studies have only evaluated these web-based sources individually or dually without comparing all three of them1-5.

Previous research identifies social media as an informal source of near-real time health data that may add value to disease surveillance systems by providing broader access to health data across hard-toreach populations. This indirect health monitoring may improve public health professionals’ ability to detect disease outbreaks faster than traditional methods and to enhance outbreak response. The Philippines consists of over 7,000 islands and is prone to meteorological (storms), hydrological (floods), and geophysical disasters (earthquakes and volcanoes).

Social media is of considerable interest as a sensor into the thoughts, interests and health of a population. We consider three types of health events that an analyst may wish to be made aware of:

- Given a known disease, such as MERS, SARS, Measles, etc., an event corresponds to individuals contracting the disease.

- Given a set of symptoms (fever, stomach pain, etc.), an event is an unusual number of individuals1 complaining of the symptoms.