Early warning system for epidemics: Risk map correlates environmental, health data
Sunday, February 23, 2014 - 06:31
in Health & Medicine
The environment has an impact on our health. Preventing epidemics relies on activating the right counter-measures, and scientists are now trying to find out how better use of forecasting can help. The EU’s EO2HEAVEN project developed a risk map for correlating environmental and health data in order to identify where a disease may break out next.