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 Satellites help predict disease outbreaks - report
 
                           Updated 2:17 PM ET July 16, 1999
 
  By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
 
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Outbreaks of disease can be
  predicted months in advance using satellite images and other
  climate data, researchers said Friday.


  By analyzing information collected by a U.S. government weather
  satellite, a team of scientists studied the density of green vegetation
  in Africa to predict outbreaks of Rift Valley Fever, which can kill
  livestock and humans.

good examples of the connection of different data sets that maybe combined 
with data concerning individuals, also the colonialisation of data from other 
countries.

 
  Kenneth Linthicum of the Walter Reed Army Institute of
  Research and colleagues found the amount of green vegetation
  was a reliable indicator of rainfall, which in turn, predicted the rise
  and fall of mosquito populations.
 
  In Africa, rainfall encourages mosquitoes, which carry Rift Valley
  Fever, a hemorrhagic disease spread from livestock to humans by
  mosquitoes or by contact with infected animals. In 1998 the
  disease killed more than 600 people in Kenya.
 
  Examining the weather and climate data could be used to warn
  about a range of diseases and could improve efforts to warn of
  drought, flood and other disasters, the researchers said.
 
  "Several climate indices can be used to predict outbreaks up to 5
  months in advance," they wrote in their report, published in Friday's
  issue of the journal Science.
 
  "For the first time we now have 18 or 19 years of data," Compton
  Tucker of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland,
  who worked on the study, said in a telephone interview.
 
problem of the amount of data that are collected and the problem of the 
purpose of combining and reading the data


  "We have satellite data and ground-based data and the actual
  documentation of the presence of the disease from traditional
  medical sources. So all these things have sort of come together."
 
more predictions more possibilities to help or more control densified camera 
systems and more to sell? pesticides??
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