Fighting Bird Flu With Cellphones

In Indonesia it often takes days, if not weeks, for reports of bird flu to find their way to health authorities in Jakarta, reports the WSJ, and the delay can prove deadly.

Now "Voxiva, a small Washington, D.C., company, has developed a cellphone-based technology that aims to speed up and improve the reporting of flu in birds.

... Using what is essentially a souped-up version of the short message service -- the text-messaging technology common on digital cellphones -- Indonesian workers checking birds at quarantine stations can enter predetermined codes to send information about actual and suspected flu cases." ...

emily | 1:35 PM | Health Issues and SMS Alerts |
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