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Useful health websites, II

Posted by Sarah R

December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Médecins Sans Frontières treating cases of Cholera
Image by Sokwanele – Zimbabwe via Flickr

I am an epidemiology nerd. I love reading about disease outbreaks and poisonings and reading studies about public health problems. Because of this nerdiness, when I found HealthMap, I was blown away. The Global Health Map creates a super-neat map that shows you disease outbreaks globally!

From this map, I was able to see that there has been adverse effects to the hepatitis vaccination in China, two cases of Polio in Karachi, yet another cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, a massive flu outbreak in England and botulism outbreak in Florida.

You can use the left hand menu to choose what diseases you want to concentrate on. Choose country specific alerts instead of disease specific if you’re more interested in looking at things that way. Either way, there’s probably at least one outbreak of something your state and you should go check it out! Think of me as you’re reading about your diseased-state!

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