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 …read more
