{"id":9254,"date":"2014-12-20T05:01:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T10:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=9254"},"modified":"2014-12-20T05:01:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T10:01:48","slug":"scientists-created-a-computer-system-that-helps-predict-malaria-outbreaks-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/9254","title":{"rendered":"Scientists created a computer system that helps predict malaria outbreaks in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Map-of-Endemic-Malaria-in-Ethiopia.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Map-of-Endemic-Malaria-in-Ethiopia-300x212.png\" alt=\"Map of Endemic Malaria in Ethiopia\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9255\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Map-of-Endemic-Malaria-in-Ethiopia-300x212.png 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Map-of-Endemic-Malaria-in-Ethiopia-1024x723.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Map-of-Endemic-Malaria-in-Ethiopia-220x155.png 220w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Map-of-Endemic-Malaria-in-Ethiopia.png 1754w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Scientists have created a computer system that will help predict malaria outbreaks in northwestern Ethiopia. The advance warning system, which uses local epidemiological information and real-time environmental data, will allow public health officials to transport resources to high-risk areas and contain outbreaks early, explained ecologist Chris Merkord from South Dakota State University.<\/p>\n<p>There are two ways to predict a disease outbreak. Health officials can track the number of cases being reported by hospitals and react after numbers spike. Or, scientists can use environmental precursors of a disease to create an early warning system.<\/p>\n<p>The new system, EPIDEMIA, combines both techniques in a user-friendly interface. The team presented their new project Tuesday afternoon at the American Geophysical Union\u2019s Fall Meeting in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>The team focused their project in the Amhara region of Ethiopia where regional malaria outbreaks occur every five to eight years and localized, smaller outbreaks spring up more frequently. Sixty-eight percent of the 17 million people in Amhara live in areas where malaria can occur. Spread by mosquitoes, malaria causes chills, fever and flu-like symptoms, and can cause death in severe cases. [&#8230;] <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/geospace\/2014\/12\/17\/new-computer-system-predicts-malaria-outbreaks-ethiopia\/\">READ MORE<\/a>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have created a computer system that will help predict malaria outbreaks in northwestern Ethiopia. The advance warning system, which uses local epidemiological information and real-time environmental data, will allow public health officials to transport resources to high-risk areas and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/9254\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[4198,4199,4195,4197,4193,4967,4192,4194,4196],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}