Track swine flu outbreak via Google Maps
Keep track of the swine flu outbreak via Google Maps and a special Google page dedicated to flu trends.
If you've turned on the news or read a paper recently, you've more likely than not been bombarded by news of the current outbreak of swine flu that seems to have originated in Mexico and is spreading person to person. Our sibling site, Super Eco, has some helpful tips for you to follow to naturally avoid coming down with the swine flu. We thought we'd point you to the Google Map below tracking the worldwide outbreak, so that you know all the places that you shouldn't go. Google also offers a flu trends site where you can monitor what's what.
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Jerry (11:34 AM on Mon Apr 27, 2009)
Does anyone have insight on how location specific investments might result from the swine flu?
Here are some other maps of the swine flu:
http://phloem.org/swineflu/
http://www.healthmap.org/en
Anonymous (6:39 PM on Mon Apr 27, 2009)
I must say this scares me the mos, this will kill us all if the health dept does not find a cure. 100 million dead maybe more.
C.K. Sample III
(11:04 AM on Tue Apr 28, 2009)
I don't think so. This isn't the first time the swine flu has had an outbreak. It happened in 1976 and there were PSA ads all over about it, but it was by no means a plague then and it's not one now. Don't believe the hype. Just go to the doctor if you have flu symptoms rather than going to work, and we'll all be fine.
Anonymous (9:53 AM on Wed Apr 29, 2009)
Of all times this happens when our country is in a recession. How many people do you really think are staying home from work for if they or their children are displaying symptoms? How many can afford that financially right now despite it being the right thing to do. People are afraid of losing their jobs for the slightest thing. Very scary to think about.
vitoque (7:12 PM on Sat May 2, 2009)
A very good swine flu dashboard is at:
http://theairdb.com/swine-flu/heatmap.html
I particulary like the fact that you can import both timeline and heatmap as iGoogle gadget.
Anonymous (1:39 AM on Sun May 3, 2009)
Everyone is getting scared about the swine flu because the media makes it scary.
The swine flu, is just that, a flu. It incubates in 2-7 days, just like influenza A. Its virulence (the # of people it will affect upon exposure) is 20%, just like influenza A.
There has been one death in the states (a baby). No deaths in Canada (or anywhere else other than Mexico). The other thing, is that the deaths you see from Mexico are very biased. There may be hundreds of thousands of patients affected with the swine flu in Mexico, but they only test the most severely affected patients. If EVERYONE was tested, this may result in the same numbers as Influenza A which kills thousands of Americans every year. People, relax. This is another form of FLU. The reasons for the panic is that its come from an animal (which is not new, lots of viruses cross species), and that it affects middle aged people rather than the young and the elderly. The numbers will end up being the same. Relax.
helen (6:34 AM on Thu Jul 30, 2009)
have never thought about it like that before. Thanks so much for the depth and understanding at which you covered the topic. it's a useful piece of information not only for me but for many others. have read a lot on the topic at different blogs and books (download mainly from http://www.picktorrent.com but this piece really gives food for thought