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By Taha Kass-Hout, MD, MS

Thursday, January 8, 2009

World Health-Related Events

Data is aggregated and moderated on routinely basis using InSTEDD's Collaborative Early Event Detection and Response space. Sources of information include the following (in alphabetical order):

- BBC Outbreak News
- BioCaster Open Source Ontology
- CNN Health News
- EpiSpider
- Eurosurveillance
- Google Outbreak News
- HealthMap (Global Disease Alert Map)
- HEDDS Surveillance News
- Moreover Public Health News
- ProMED News (including MBDS)
- Veratect Corporation
- WDIN Disease Map Digest
- WHO Latest news on the avian influenza situation in humans around the world
- WHO Outbreak News
- Y! Health Cold & Flu News

Related Links:
  • Collaborative Analytics and Environment for Linking Early Event Detection to an Effective Response
  • Best Poster Award for Improving Public Health Investigation and Response at the Seventh Annual ISDS Conference
Note: Tag cloud was created on Many Eyes © IBM (click here for a live version)

Posted by Taha Kass-Hout, MD, MS at 9:45 PM Subscribe by Email

Labels: Biosurveillance , Collaboration , Disease Detection , Google , MBDS , Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance , Open Souce , Projects , Public Health , Riff , RNA

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