Locate Diseases with ‘Outbreaks Near Me’
September 5, 2009 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Announcements, Computers, Health
Interested in finding out where the latest salmonella or H1N1 Flu outbreak is?
Want to know what diseases are bugging your hometown or favorite vacation spot before you get there?
Now you can do so not only in the internet with the user friendly HealthMap website but also with the recently released Outbreaks Near Me iPhone App.
The iPhone app is hooked into the HealthMap site and every time you search of information, the HealthMap database is searched and the info is downloaded to your phone in map form.
While the H1N1 flu takes center stage, in all, there are nearly 100 diseases listed …read more
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
