Approach to deal with the problem statement: One of the previous works done
on healthcare and social media includes the prediction of Influenza and Influenza-
like (ILI) activity in the USA, prior to the generation of Control and Prevention
(CDC) report and the source of the data has been Wikipedia usage and individual
based tweets.
Both of the above approaches demonstrate the diagnosis of seasonal and
pandemic diseases where the trends and estimation of the time period plays an
important role in the determination [43]. This research, on the other hand, focuses
on diseases which are not seasonal, yet the individuals who have been diagnosed
with these diseases have shown similar trends of mentioning the symptoms in their
tweets.