OUTBREAK: a user-friendly georeferencing online tool for disease surveillance.
Biol Res
; 54(1): 20, 2021 Jul 08.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1301896
ABSTRACT
The current COVID-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 3.7 million victims and it will cause more deaths in the coming months. Tools that track the number and locations of cases are critical for surveillance and help in making policy decisions for controlling the outbreak. However, the current surveillance web-based dashboards run on proprietary platforms, which are often expensive and require specific computational knowledge. We developed a user-friendly web tool, named OUTBREAK, that facilitates epidemic surveillance by showing in an animated graph the timeline and geolocations of cases of an outbreak. It permits even non-specialist users to input data most conveniently and track outbreaks in real-time. We applied our tool to visualize the SARS 2003, MERS, and COVID19 epidemics, and provided them as examples on the website. Through the zoom feature, it is also possible to visualize cases at city and even neighborhood levels. We made the tool freely available at https//outbreak.sysbio.tools/ . OUTBREAK has the potential to guide and help health authorities to intervene and minimize the effects of outbreaks.
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Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pandemics
/
COVID-19
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Biol Res
Journal subject:
Biology
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S40659-021-00343-5
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