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Tue, Jun 21, 2016 - Page 3
CDC launches map to inform public on infectious diseases
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday announced it has launched a ?Taiwan Infectious Disease Standardized Incidence Rate Map? to provide an easy way for the public to check the latest incidence rates of infectious diseases.
The map (id.geohealth.tw) was created with help from an Academia Sinica team, which developed an automatic system that collects open data ? the latest statistics about infectious disease cases ? from the centers and translates it into images...
...The map will not only help the public understand what infectious diseases are emerging in their neighborhoods and encourage people to take precautionary measures, it can also help local governments allocate budgets on preventing certain diseases, the CDC said...
Tue, Jun 21, 2016 - Page 3
CDC launches map to inform public on infectious diseases
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday announced it has launched a ?Taiwan Infectious Disease Standardized Incidence Rate Map? to provide an easy way for the public to check the latest incidence rates of infectious diseases.
The map (id.geohealth.tw) was created with help from an Academia Sinica team, which developed an automatic system that collects open data ? the latest statistics about infectious disease cases ? from the centers and translates it into images...
...The map will not only help the public understand what infectious diseases are emerging in their neighborhoods and encourage people to take precautionary measures, it can also help local governments allocate budgets on preventing certain diseases, the CDC said...