Google Maps Disease Outbreaks

Nice from Google, a picture is worth 1000 words, still holds true. This site also removes duplicate information and drills down to show a picture of where disease outbreaks are across the world. Could be helpful if one is planning to travel to be aware and find out up front what to be aware of outside the US. The site was used recently to trace an outbreak of e coli at a major supermarket chain too, so that could really be helpful with all the data we have to sift through to day, check out your local store or other facility before you leave the house, that is if you want to be informed to be aware. BD

A new website, HealthMap, addresses that challenge by siphoning up text from Google News, the World Health Organization and online discussion groups, then filtering it and boiling it down into mapped data that researchers -- and the public -- can use to track new disease outbreaks, region by region. "There is so much information on the web about disease outbreaks but it's obscured by