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Preventing Epidemics with STEM

Posted by Zonk on from the stop-em-where-they-live dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "IBM has released a Linux based technology enabling spatiotemporal modeling of infectious agents across the United States, providing scientists and public health officials with a powerful tool for understanding, and potentially preventing, the spread of infectious diseases. The new STEM technology provides Geographic Information System (GIS) data for every county in the United States supplied by TIGER files."

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  1. Linux... by 0x461FAB0BD7D2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    it is not only immune from viruses, it stops them too!

    Note: this technology is based on Java2. It should run on any Java-supported platform, although IBM only lists Win2000 and Linux as supported platforms.

  2. Re:Awesome, but there are some roadblocks by 0x461FAB0BD7D2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The problem is that many diseases now are coming from Asia and Africa, more than the US. And this application seems to support the US as a model only.

    As for diseases like AIDS, many like Thabo Mbeki refuse to acknowledge the link between AIDS and HIV. And President Mbeki is seen by many as the voice of Africa. His views on AIDS are more disturbing than those who put politics over safety.

  3. Re:Awesome, but there are some roadblocks by nametaken · · Score: 2, Informative


    Actually, when I unpacked it, I noticed all the data was just xml. If you can compile the source data for other countries, the program should work with that.