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New iPhone App Aims to Help You Avoid Swine Flu

by Terrence O'Brien on May 1, 2009 at 10:03 AM

http://www.switched.com/2009/03/09/webcam-virus-hijacks-750-twitter-accounts/You know the deal -- there's an app for everything. Literally.

And now there is an app for tracking the over-hyped medical threat that the press has dubbed Swine Flu. Sure, Swine Flu has been less deadly than Bird Flu (which wasn't particularly deadly to begin with), and less fun to say than Monkey Pox, but that hasn't stopped the media from turning it into a story you can't avoid.

So, while you can't avoid the coverage, you can avoid the infected with the help of your iPhone and 'Swine Flu Tracker,' which is currently awaiting Apple's approval to be placed in the app store. This means that by the time 'Tracker' is actually available, it'll be useless since we'll all have moved on to something more fun, like Buffalo Fever or Jersey-Girl-itis.

'Swine Flu Tracker' tells you all you need to know about the disease -- symptoms (they're the same as the regular flu), CDC alerts, and even displays the number of confirmed and suspected cases on a map, so can avoid vast areas of town and totally freeze out any neighbors whose houses happen to show up on the map!

So grab your face mask and iPhone and get out there. Cause this story isn't gonna sensationalize itself. [From: TechCrunch]

Tags: app store, AppStore, breaking news, BreakingNews, epidemics, health, iphone apps, IphoneApps, mobile apps, MobileApps, sensationalism, swine flu, SwineFlu, top

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