Swine flu, bird flu, ebola. Now zika, the mosquito-transmitted virus spreading from south and central America, is the disease du jour.
“It always seems to be something that people are talking about and panicking about,” said Graham Dodge, CEO of Baltimore-based illness mapping startup Sickweather.
Dodge is tapping into the public’s hunger for knowledge about illness to help grow his business. Sickweather is a mobile and online application that maps illness, such as the flu, using data aggregated from Twitter and Facebook, and self-reported by users.
Read more at Baltimore Business Journal
from http://baltimoretech.org/news/sickweather-banks-on-social-media-features-to-grow-users/
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