Crawling The Internet To Track Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Tue, 07/08/2008 - 08:30

Could Internet discussion forums, listservs and online news outlets be an informative source of information on disease outbreaks?

A team of researchers from Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School thinks so, and it has launched a real-time, automated data-gathering system called HealthMap to gather, organize and disseminate this online intelligence.


 

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