Infonaut: “Charting the right course through an outbreak”
This morning’s Globe & Mail features a profile on Infonaut, and the relevance of our Infection Watch Live solution to the H1N1 outbreak:
In 1854, Dr. John Snow plotted cholera cases on a map of London, England, to find the source of a serious outbreak that was killing hundreds of people. It became apparent that the biggest clusters of the disease were near a public water pump on Broad Street, and Dr. Snow was able to stop the spread by shutting down that source.
Fast-forward one-and-a-half centuries to Toronto, where a small firm is using 21st-century software to create maps with similar goals — the containment of disease — by showing infection patterns that can be understood at a glance.
Full Article: Charting the right course through an outbreak
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