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OutbreakMD: tracking and identifying disease outbreaks in post-earthquake Haiti
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HealthMap is a real-time disease epidemic intelligence tracking and visualization system that collects information from general news media, individual first-hand reports and public health sources around the world. Gaps in this effort clearly occur… read more… Program, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA E-mail: chunara@gmail.com Objective OutbreakMD is a mobile Web application … -
Evaluation of Online Media Reports for Global Infectious Disease Intelligence
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While traditional means of surveillance by governments, multi-national agencies, and institutional networks assist in reporting and confirming infectious disease outbreaks, these formal sources of information are limited by their… read more… to only 24 released by WHO and 623 found on the ProMED mail system. News sources are shown to be especially …