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A '''Disease Mapper''' is a term used to describe the art of predicting where and when a given disease will start and spread.

*Input:
**data on rainfall, temperature, vegetation, etc.
**combined with satellite imagery (e.g., NASA, Google Maps), databases (e.g., CDC), expertise in a particular disease (e.g., Malaria), etc.
*Output:
**current outbreaks of a particular disease
**predict future ones (where and when)
*Customers:
**universities, governments, consultancies, the United Nations, etc.

==History==
"Medical geographers" (e.g, Dr. John Snow) drew maps of outbreaks of cholera and yellow fever in 1854.

==See also==
*Health Geography / Medical geography
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==External links==
*[http://maximus.cvm.uiuc.edu/gissa/dmapper/about.mhtml Disease mapper] — a web-based tool for interactive mapping of animal diseases.
*[http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0704/gallery.jobs_new_careers.biz2/ New Careers - Disease mapper] — on Business 2.0 (accessed 2007-05-04)

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 ==See also==
 *Health Geography / Medical geography
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 ==External links==
 *[http://maximus.cvm.uiuc.edu/gissa/dmapper/about.mhtml Disease mapper] &mdash; a web-based tool for interactive mapping of animal diseases.
 *[http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0704/gallery.jobs_new_careers.biz2/ New Careers - Disease mapper] &mdash; on Business 2.0 (accessed 2007-05-04)
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 *Input:
 **data on rainfall, temperature, vegetation, etc.
-**combined with satellite imagery (e.g., NASA, Google Maps), databases (e.g., CDC), expertise in a particular disease (e.g., Malaria), etc.
+**combined with satellite imagery (e.g., NASA, Google Maps), databases (e.g., CDC), expertise in a particular disease (e.g., [http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/distribution_epi/distribution.htm Malaria]), etc.
 *Output:
 **current outbreaks of a particular disease