May 31, 2011
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- We found a new tool for the treatment of hepatitis C
Popular Internet giant Google has released for public use the new service to incorporate statistics on incidence queries
dengue
.
According to the press service of the company, New service It allows to find out the prevalence of the disease, its activity. In addition, users can get information about projected outbreaks of contracting the infection.
In the creation of the Internet project actively participated specialists at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. Their joint report on the work presented in the pages of the well-known online magazine PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases .
The principle of operation of the new service is to bring the statistics of search queries about the disease dengue. This method will determine the speed and geographical spread of the disease in the territory of different countries. At the moment, the service provides information on Brazil, India, Bolivia, Singapore and Indonesia.
And this is not the first such service from Google. In 2009, the project was launched, devoted to the dynamics of the spread H1N1 flu After the WHO declared a pandemic of the disease.