Google launched Trends Hemorrhagic tool to help doctors track the spread of deadly fever.
Map on Google will be showing bloody activity. Medical equipment that will help health officials prepare for outbreaks of dengue, by analyzing the relevant search terms.
Technology giant is hoping Hemorrhagic Trends act as an early warning system, and warned doctors against mosquito viruses spread when moving from one country to another.
Dengue Trends using methodology similar to Google Trends Flu, which can keep track of influenza throughout the world in 2009.
Using data''a number of DHF cases provided by the Department of Health and World Health Organization, we can build a model approach to estimate the real-time activity of dengue fever based on the popularity of certain search term,''said Google spokesman was quoted as saying dailymail.co Vikram Sahai . uk, Thursday (02/06).
Google researchers in collaboration with scientists at the Childrenâ € ™ s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School to develop this tool.
In addition, countries such as Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia and Singapore which have high levels of endemic transmission of dengue fever was selected as the research team. They will provide basic data, a large base of Internet users and national data, collected through passive reporting or sentinel surveillance of the site to rate this Google tool.
Google's online tools can be found in http://www.google.org/denguetrends. And will be published in the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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