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Outbreak.com: Using the Web to Track Deadly Diseases in Real Time
By Bryan Walsh Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011
Back in February 2003, if you subscribed to the ProMED e-mail list ? a clearinghouse for intelligence about infectious disease outbreaks ? you might have seen quizzical messages about a strange spate of respiratory disease cropping up in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. Those messages ? some of which were translated versions of news items appearing in the mainland Chinese press, before government censors stepped in ? were the first public descriptions of what would later be known as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS...
Outbreak.com: Using the Web to Track Deadly Diseases in Real Time
By Bryan Walsh Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011
Back in February 2003, if you subscribed to the ProMED e-mail list ? a clearinghouse for intelligence about infectious disease outbreaks ? you might have seen quizzical messages about a strange spate of respiratory disease cropping up in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. Those messages ? some of which were translated versions of news items appearing in the mainland Chinese press, before government censors stepped in ? were the first public descriptions of what would later be known as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS...