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Diseases can be tracked better and faster with new tech
2013-10-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Surveillance is key to eliminating and preventing infectious diseases. Early detection offers the chance of rapid response, which can stop a handful of cases or a few clusters of illness from becoming something far worse. Take polio. Surveillance underpins the current global eradication effort: without it, we wouldn't know where or how the virus circulates, as 90 per cent of cases have no symptoms, which makes it difficult to identify them. As a result of early detection, however, 99 per cent...
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