Internet Crawling: A New Tool For Tracking Infectious Disease

You don’t have to be a public health official to know that as of July 1, there are over 40 states with alerts on salmonella outbreaks. Nor do you have to wait for traditional data sources like the World Health Organization or the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose reporting is sometimes delayed. An online project called HealthMap (http://www.healthmap.

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Filed under: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses on July 16th, 2008