NASA Satellites to Predict Disease Outbreaks

coondoggie writes "NASA and its Applied Sciences Program will be using 14 satellites to watch the Earth's environment and help predict and prevent infectious disease outbreaks around the world. Through orbiting satellites, data is collected daily to monitor environmental changes. That information is then passed on to agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Defense who then apply the data to predict and track disease outbreaks and assist in making public health policy decisions. The use of remote sensing technology helps scientists predict the outbreak of some of the most common and deadly infectious diseases such as Ebola, West Nile virus and Rift Valley Fever."

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[skeftomai]

...we could just pray and ask our god friend to tell us where these diseases will break out. Better yet, we could just assume that the areas with the most sin are the most likely to have outbreaks. How could we go wrong?

Re:Ebola, West Nile, Rift Valley

[jihadist]

1. The tropics breed more diseases that survive. The colder climates eliminate more of them.

2. People screwing monkeys. About half of the tub of lard, useless clock puncher, TV addicted morons now would screw a monkey if they could.

3. Much unexplored forest. Evil shit lurks deep in the jungle, biologically. Less so in the more human-traversed, colder climate forests of Europe and USA.

4. Racism.