Crawling The Internet To Track Infectious Disease Outbreaks

ScienceDaily (July 7, 2008) — Could Internet discussion forums, listservs, and online news outlets be an informative source of information on disease outbreaks? A team of researchers from Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School thinks so, and it has launched a real-time, automated data-gathering system called HealthMap to gather, organize and disseminate this online... [read full story]