There is a new free iPhone application available called “Outbreaks Near Me” that tracks and reports local outbreaks of infectious disease.
Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and the MIT Media Lab developed the application. The app combines the iPhone’s GPS with outbreak tracking data from HealthMap.org, a website that mines the Internet for information on outbreaks.
"If people know what’s happening around them, they might be more likely to take basic precautions," such as washing their hands and getting vaccinated, said HealthMap co-founder John S. Brownstein, an assistant professor at the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program.
Users can also submit their own outbreak reports and photos right from their own phones.
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September 6th, 2009 at 8:31 am
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October 6th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Most needed and welcome application at this time. Most of the ountries in the world are struggling to tackle this swine flu pandemic.
October 16th, 2009 at 6:53 am
H1N1 or Swine Flu is a bit scary but it a good thing to note that this virus is not that very deadly.,, .
November 25th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
the H1N1 or Swine Flu virus did put our country in disarray for quite sometime, it is good to know that at least it did not cause so many deaths.