IBM unleashes software tool for thwarting pandemics
 

*Source: Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070608...b2CZX5rMWM0F)*
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - IBM researchers on Friday released free software to help public health officials prevent pandemics of diseases such as bird flu or dengue fever.

IBM's Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler (STEM) is a tool for public health scientists worldwide to forecast how diseases will spread in the same way meteorologists predict the paths of storms, according to researchers.

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