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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 … -
Do geographic trends of social media indicate risk of secondary infectious disease outbreaks?
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A devastating cholera outbreak began in Haiti in 2010. Sequencing of Vibrio cholerae isolates showed that the epidemic was likely the result of the introduction of cholera from a distant geographic source. The same strain of cholera was detected in… read more… outbreak. Am J Trop Med Hyg. (in press). *Rumi Chunara E-mail: rumi@alum.mit.edu (page number not for citation …