Break Dengue

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Break Dengue aims to connect different initiatives around the world that are addressing the issue of dengue, the most rapidly spreading mosquito-borne viral disease. | Dengue Track We are helping to build the ultimate dengue tracking system – and we need you. Breaking dengue fever is one of the public health challenges of our time. The World Health Organisation says rapidly detection of outbreaks is essential to reducing the staggering human and economic costs of dengue fever. The challenge is immense but digital technology – and a little help from you – will be a game-changer . “We now have access to more data than ever before,” says Dr Mauricio Santillana from the HealthMap team at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr Santillana’s team is pulling together information from Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, clinicians’ databases and crowd-sourced diseases surveillance

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