• May 2, 2024

When theflu attacks us, generally we should be in respo at home, avoid spreading our virus and take the respective medication. Fortunately, not everything is watching television; now the majority has smartphones to maintain communication even if we are sick.

Although we feel the body cut and onetemperature higher than 38 degrees, we can not stop putting on our social networks how bad we are feeling, even if our friends in the network can not do anything to combat this virus, we are comforted by reading an "alíviate pronto", "I send you abracitos "," Take care of yourself "before us:" I have a cold "," I feel very bad "

Flu map

Goggle Flu Trend was the result of a collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention from the United States who applied a novel method that analyzes the search s that the population does on certain topics such asflu and from an exhaustive analysis they are able to infer the incidence levels of the disease with a great precision

Jeremy Ginsberg and Matt Moebbi , Google software engineers, discovered that there is a close relationship between searches and symptoms of the disease with certain regions. The process is as follows:

When you get sick and do not want to go to the doctor, you do searches in the network related to our condition, in this case,flu , Google counts the number of searches per day, city and can predict the evolution of the queries because they designed a algorithm that reliably collects this information.

When the swine fever affected the Mexicans, Google used this tool to map the searches related to this disease, this experiment, besides helping to know the Internet traffic , showed the points in which the fever was concentrated in greater number.

Magazine Clinical Infectious Diseases mentions that this tool is very high efficiency and reliability because their numbers compared them with those of Baltimore Department of Health and they had a lot of coincidence.

With the theme of Privacy, Google mentions that this experiment protects your privacy because it does not identify the individual but the large populations of users of this great search engine. Incredible what can be done with the information of a simple search through the net.

Video Medicine: Comparing America's Flu Map from the CDC 2016/17 with 2003/04 (May 2024).