New iPhone App Spreads News of Disease Outbreaks
For a culture that feeds ground-up, dead cows to living cows in the name of economics, we sure do get paranoid when it comes to disease. And there's no better sign of that paranoia than the Outbreaks Near Me iPhone app, which allows users to access disease outbreak information. The app is based on the free HealthMap Web site, but improves upon it by letting users add to the knowledge base. ...
There are plenty of tools out there to track disease and infections, but only HealthMap.Org uses Google Maps to give you a frightening visual of outbreaks around the world. The service uses a complex algorithm that searches Google News, World Health Organization alerts and other online news and discussion groups for reports of outbreaks. The algorithm is able to distinguish between articles ...








