Web Map Application - Zika Map

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Interesting application of GIS for Zika mapping

 

links :

http://www.healthmap.org/zika/#timeline

HealthMap is a Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP application and relies on the following open products.

 

    Google Maps
    GoogleMapAPI for PHP
    Google Translate API
    xajax PHP AJAX library

 

HealthMap also uses Fisher-Robinson Bayesian filtering, as described by Gary Robinson in A Statistical Approach to the Spam Problem.

 

HealthMap's content is aggregated from freely available information from the following sources.

ProMED Mail

Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.

World Health Organization

The United Nations specialized agency for health.

GeoSentinel

Clinician-based sentinel surveillance of individual travelers from the International Society of Travel Medicine and CDC.

OIE - World Organisation for Animal Health

The intergovernmental organisation responsible for improving animal health worldwide.

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

An intergovernmental organization for ensuring worldwide food quality and agricultural productivity.

EuroSurveillance

Peer-reviewed European information on communicable disease surveillance and control. Published by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

Google News

A commercial news aggregation service provided by Google

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Moreover

A commercial news feed aggregation service provided by VeriSign.

Wildlife Data Integration Network

A news feed from WDIN's Global Wildlife Disease News Map. WDIN is a project at the Unversity of Wisconsin - Madison, School of Veterinary Medicine.

Baidu News 新闻

A Chinese language commercial news aggregation service provided by Baidu, the number 1 search engine in China.

SOSO Info 资讯

A Chinese language commercial news aggregation service provided by the Chinese search engine Soso.