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I'm skeptical as hell as to it's ability to predict or avert pandemics.

http://www.healthmap.org/about

TFA is right. Ebola requires not an "Ebola Czar" but a team of people who are well trained with comprehensive strategy to tackle / combat / defeat Ebola

Right now, as it is, the fight against Ebola has been a sham --- this disease was not a new phenomenon, Ebola has been known since the 1970's, but because it had always been confined in the African continent, the continent in which the "low class people lives" (to the uninitiated that ain't my opinion but it has been the opinion of the colonial elites) nobody takes Ebola seriously other than very few cases of vaccine experimentation sponsored by military of various countries

The fact that WHO has to resort to collect the blood of those who survived Ebola to make a "serum" trying to cure Ebola tells us how unprepared the world is against this disease

Until now the establishment still insists that Ebola is not airborne but at least one experiment in Canada has indicated that Ebola could spread through air ( see these links --- http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...

http://healthmap.org/site/dise... )

If the establishment until now still does not want to tell us the truth, who can we trust ?

You can only catch it by ingesting another persons bodily fluids

Let me translate that into real-world terms. Do NOT rub your eyes, nose, or mouth with the hand/s that have come in contact with Ebola infected bodily fluids.

While that's good advice, it's not completely correct. One does not have to "self-contaminate" to catch Ebola. Lab tests show a single droplet landing on your eye can cause an infection. It is well known that standard surgical masks, eye protection, gowns and gloves do not prevent transfer of Ebola from patients to their caregivers. The CDC techs working with Ebola use full containment suits with positive pressure ventilation and high performance respirators. They get 2 days of hand on-training on protocol. Reports in the MSM say the nurses infected in Tx were given a 20 minute training video and only gowns, shoe booties, gloves and a face shield. It's very possible that the infected Tx nurses didn't self-contaminate.

In addition, there's documented evidence of non-contact transmission between animals and primates. See http://healthmap.org/site/dise... The Ebola infection rate was 100% of the monkeys kept in the same room with infected pigs. There were no opportunities for direct contact between animals. There definitely are vectors for transmission of Ebola without any direct contact with bodily fluids.

Like this?
Or this?
Or maybe this?

Ya...The Google is a great tool.

The death toll of the disease is 80% of all persons infected.
While the disease increases exponentially, the ratio of infected / dead is around 55% currently. But that still means that 80% will be dead three weeks later.
Source: http://healthmap.org/site/dise...

"The ones who are scared that unlikely scenarios where people are hurt will arise"

Unlikely? Why do we have firedoor rules in various building codes?

And as far as "free speech zones" and disease/crime:

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These are not UNLIKELY, they happened and they are OBVIOUS. There's a reason why we have laws regarding sanitation and trash.

Less obvious is the COST. Free speech doesn't extend to massive crowds squatting in make-shift camps destroying public property and wasting EVERYONES tax dollars. Even one of the most liberal mayors of one of the most liberal cities agrees:

In a release, the mayor said Occupy LA’s 500-plus tents cost more than $2,700 a day in sanitation, security, and other expenses.
  "Look, our lawn is dead, our sprinklers aren't working... our trees are without water," Villaraigosa said.
  According to one city official, damage to the lawn and sprinklers could cost the city over $400,000
  “We’ve all got to acknowledge that there’s a price to bear,” Villaraigosa said.

Pardon my lack of login. Have you tried looking at more dimensional data? If flu propagation is graphed not just over time, but over area via a heat map, perhaps some correlation can be ascertained. As a simple example, if the spread was a slow wave from area to area and it hits where the populace are less likely to seek medical treatment (lower income/lower rate of insurance), there may be no additional observed cases despite the disease continuing to spread. Once the wave of propagation leaves this region (which in the heat map will be a blind spot in the data at best) the observed cases will return to normal levels.

I have not found any granular data that could help. Some people are trying to do this with twitter. Though I would hope you could get general demographic information of the area served by the hospitals you get the observation data from and map it out on a much more detailed level than Google flu trends or flu.gov powered by Healthmap. Just go ahead and look at that last one of global indications. It is clear that flu could be spreading through areas without adequate healthcare and no one would know it.

Seems to highlight locations of reported places (when you search): http://healthmap.org/en/

HealthMap brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. This freely available Web site integrates outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such as ProMED) to validated official alerts (such as World Health Organization). Through an automated text processing system, the data is aggregated by disease and displayed by location for user-friendly access to the original alert. HealthMap provides a jumping-off point for real-time information on emerging infectious diseases and has particular interest for public health officials and international travelers.

Has direct funding from Google.org. Provides information via Twitter already during the rash of H1N1 outbreaks across the world.

Try this link. It tracks news stories about infections from various sources. http://www.healthmap.org/en

Interestingly enough, the US-Country Tag is affected by a google feed from www.healthnews.com, which is about Hand Foot Mouth Disease decrease in China, Hong Kong, and Singapore?

After playing around in the site for a while, I doubt its usefulness, but IANAD.