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Map tracks veterinary infectious disease cases in real time
April 18, 2014
By:
Christy Corp-Minamiji, DVM
For The VIN News Service
The new online global Worms & Germs Map aims to get ahead of outbreaks of veterinary infectious diseases by presenting cases of illness as they occur.
By the time an outbreak of infectious illness in domestic animals is suspected and surveillance gets underway, the pathogen often is spreading ahead of the experts.
A new interactive online map created by two veterinarians could change that.
The Worms & Germs Map, created by Drs. J. Scott Weese and Maureen Anderson, is an Internet-based program designed to track the spread of infectious diseases in dogs, cats and horses, as the diseases unfold.
Launched last month, the site is funded through Weese?s Canada Research Chair in zoonotic diseases. Weese is a professor in the pathobiology department at the University of Guelph in Ontario. Anderson works at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
The project aims to collect and synthesize information that in isolation may not be recognized as important, but in aggregate may give early clues of a brewing problem...
Map tracks veterinary infectious disease cases in real time
April 18, 2014
By:
Christy Corp-Minamiji, DVM
For The VIN News Service
The new online global Worms & Germs Map aims to get ahead of outbreaks of veterinary infectious diseases by presenting cases of illness as they occur.
By the time an outbreak of infectious illness in domestic animals is suspected and surveillance gets underway, the pathogen often is spreading ahead of the experts.
A new interactive online map created by two veterinarians could change that.
The Worms & Germs Map, created by Drs. J. Scott Weese and Maureen Anderson, is an Internet-based program designed to track the spread of infectious diseases in dogs, cats and horses, as the diseases unfold.
Launched last month, the site is funded through Weese?s Canada Research Chair in zoonotic diseases. Weese is a professor in the pathobiology department at the University of Guelph in Ontario. Anderson works at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
The project aims to collect and synthesize information that in isolation may not be recognized as important, but in aggregate may give early clues of a brewing problem...