Healthmap Tracks Diseases.
July 11, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Blogosphere, Health, How To, Misc., Morning News, Technology
Want to know what diseases are bugging your favorite vacation spot before you get there ?
Interested in finding out where the latest salmonella or Avian Flu outbreak is?
Well, now you can thanks to Healthmap.
Healthmap gathers text from the World Health Organization, Google News, and many other resources and filters it down and puts it onto a map for everyone to see. Never has disease tracking been so accessible. Healthmap displays the outbreaks on a world map, color coding the severity of the outbreak based on current and up-to-date news reporting.
And it’s so easy to use. The zoom and scrolling features let you pinpoint the latest outbreaks of over 50 diseases (human and animal). Pick a disease or a location listed on at the left of the screen and then click on the map to read the original article or report.
Check it out…
Kelly Townsend
Thats a really good resouce, thanks.
wow, thats kind of crazy. i have a family friend with a child who has a very low immune system due to a disease he has, and this is perfect because they have to be so careful when they take him anywhere. thanks!
http://www.groundedfitness.com
It really is great to have resources like this map at our fingertips.
Kelly, hope the map helps your family’s friend keep safe…