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Wednesday, Sep 2nd, 2009 ↓New iPhone App 'Outbreaks Near Me' Locates H1N1 (Swine Flu), Infectious Diseases →
Sept 2, 2009 (Sciencedaily.com)—A new iPhone application, created by researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab, enables users to track and report outbreaks of infectious diseases, such as H1N1 (swine flu), on the ground in real time.
The application, “Outbreaks Near Me,” builds upon the mission and proven capability of HealthMap, an online resource that collects, filters, maps and disseminates information about emerging infectious diseases, and provides a new, contextualized view of a user’s specific location – pinpointing outbreaks that have been reported in the vicinity of the user and offering the opportunity to search for additional outbreak information by location or disease.
Additional functionality of Outbreaks Near Me is the ability to set alerts that will notify a user on their device or by e-mail when new outbreaks are reported in their proximity, or if a user enters a new area of activity.
“We hope individuals will find the new app to be a useful source of outbreak information – locally, nationally, and globally,” says HealthMap co-founder John Brownstein, PhD, assistant professor in the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP). “As people are equipped with more knowledge and awareness of infectious disease, the hope is that they will become more involved and proactive about public health.”
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Tags: iPhone application swine flu H1N1 outbreak disease infectious location awareness
Infectious Mononucleosis May Increase Risk for CFS in Teens →
July 10, 2009 (medscape.com)—Infectious mononucleosis (IM) may be a risk factor for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in adolescents, according to the results of a prospective study reported in the July issue of Pediatrics.
“The observation that CFS may follow IM occurs particularly frequently in adolescent samples,” write Ben Z. Katz, MD, from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, and colleagues. “Acute, mononucleosis-like illnesses preceding chronic fatigue have been documented for approximately three fourths of adolescents with CFS, with nearly one half exhibiting active mononucleosis infection at symptom onset.”
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