Conflict-related variables should be explicitly integrated into risk mapping and prioritization of targeted sleeping sickness research and mitigation initiatives.
6) Map of Maladies: Sickweather App, the "Doppler radar for sickness" Sickweather's iOS app uses social status updates, natural language processing, and location data to map zones of illness in categories.
To cut or not to cut Follow the map Hold the champagne ReprintsLeft at that, the sickness would probably be just another ghastly farming disease (cattle get anthrax as well).
But the explorers, despite great hardships and frequent sickness that finally took Lagrée's life, accomplished a major task in mapping unknown territory, and they were the first Europeans to enter Yunnan province by a southern route.
Also awaiting financing is a plan to use a Harvard University mapping tool to correlate natural gas installations with reports of sickness and a proposal to study the health outcomes of targeted populations by examining billing data from insurance companies.
This study was a first attempt to map the relevant financial burden to the employer due to employee sickness on board merchant vessels.
Each marker on the map represents a death, coloured on the basis of the cause (suicide, sickness, overdose, homicide and unclear circumstances).
"We are seeing a 75% decrease in sickness especially water-borne disease such as parasite infections," says Geovanny Santamaria, from global health group Map Ecuador.
Control and prevention of sleeping sickness by national and international authorities should explicitly integrate consideration of conflict and its impacts into mapping and targeting of regions for priority intervention.
Because while the Red Nose climb of Kilimanjaro entertained us — Fearne Cotton with altitude sickness is a story we want to read — it's also put Africa's highest mountain on the map.
