BehindTheMedspeak: HealthMap – 'Global disease alert map'

Miguel Helft's November 12, 2008 New York Times front page story about Google Flu Trends mentioned this site in passing; he wrote, "HealthMap, a project affiliated with the Children's Hospital Boston, scours the web for articles, blog posts and newsletters to create a map (top) that tracks emerging infectious diseases around the world."

In a Wall Street Journal article by Robert A. Guth also appearing on November 12, 2008 he wrote, "At Harvard Medical School's Children's Hospital Boston, a site called HealthMap

crawls through 24,000 Web sites looking for disease-related terms. Results appear on a world map, which has colored markers for dengue fever, avian flu and other diseases."