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Disease trackers get boost from Google
Two groups working on ways to detect disease outbreaks around the world have received further support to find disease hot spots.
HealthMap, a project of Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, and ProMED-mail, an electronic disease-reporting tool of the International Society of Infectious Diseases, together have won a three-year, $3 million grant from Google.org to improve disease detection and prediction.
ProMED relies on a online network of global health experts and HealthMap, described earlier this year, analyzes official and unofficial sources of information, from clinical reports to blogs to give early warning of disease outbreaks.
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