id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-332658-548402bb Brownstein, John S Surveillance Sans Frontières: Internet-Based Emerging Infectious Disease Intelligence and the HealthMap Project 2008-07-08 .txt text/plain 3108 160 39 sources can play an important role in early event detection and support situational awareness by providing current, highly local information about outbreaks, even from areas relatively invisible to traditional global public health efforts. and other nontraditional sources of surveillance data can facilitate early outbreak detection, increase public awareness of disease outbreaks prior to their formal recognition, and provide an integrated and contextualized view of global health information. With the aim of creating an integrated global view of emerging infections based not only on traditional public health datasets but rather on all available information sources, we developed HealthMap, a freely accessible, automated electronic information system for organizing data on outbreaks according to geography, time, and infectious disease agent [16] ( Figure 1 ). Ultimately, the monitoring of diverse media-based sources will augment epidemic intelligence with information derived outside the traditional public health infrastructure, yielding a more comprehensive and timely global view of emerging infectious disease threats. ./cache/cord-332658-548402bb.txt ./txt/cord-332658-548402bb.txt