Sunday, June 2, 2013

How the Online World Is Fighting the Next Pandemic

Viral faces virtual, as web community battles H7N9 and MERS.
By Crawford Kilian, Yesterday, TheTyee.ca
First, the bad news: This spring has seen the emergence of not one but two potentially disastrous new diseases: H7N9, an avian flu that could be more dangerous than H5N1, and MERS -- Middle East Respiratory Syndrome -- a coronavirus related to SARS.
The good news is that health agencies, governments, journalists, and ordinary people have created an online early-warning system that may have helped suppress H7N9 and could do the same with MERS.


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