Infonaut’s CEO Niall Wallace was interviewed this evening on BNN’s SqueezePlay. See his full interview on infection control here.

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An Alberta girl with no apparent link to Mexico is in hospital with Canada’s first reported severe case of swine flu — a sign the nasty bug is now spreading here at home.

Public health officials acknowledged Monday the H1N1 influenza is infecting those with no immediately obvious connections to Mexico. Federal officials reported 41 new cases Monday, bringing the total to 140 across the country.

Dr. David Butler-Jones, the chief public health officer, said news of the more severe case “although disconcerting, is not surprising and does not change our course of action.”

Full Article:  here.

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