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New IPhone Application Tracks Disease Outbreaks
"This is grassroots, participatory epidemiology," said HealthMap co-founder Clark Freifeld, a PhD student at the MIT Media Lab.
"We aim to empower citizens in the cause of public health, not only by providing ready access to real-time information, but also by encouraging them to contribute their own knowledge, expertise, and observations," he said.
"In enabling participation in surveillance, we also expect to increase global coverage and identify outbreaks earlier," he added.
HealthMap, founded in 2006, tracks and maps infectious disease outbreaks through news reports, personal accounts, official alerts, blogs and chat rooms.
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