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COMMENTS: Floogle
Atlanta is the home of the Centers for Disease Control so CBS assigned Mark Strassmann from its Georgia bureau to cover the floogle story. Google, the search engine, can spot which areas of the country have a sudden surge in Internet queries for information on fever symptoms. Public health scientists have to wait for the sick searcher to visit the doctor, get tested, have results analyzed, then reported back to Atlanta. Google claims to be able to locate influenza outbreaks two weeks earlier than the CDC so CDC plan to use that head start to locate hot spots for vaccine delivery.
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