Healthmap is a pretty interesting project which debuted today. It automatically data-mines news and other sources for emerging disease outbreaks and then plots them on a map. Both polio and measles are included in their data-mining of disease outbreaks; working in immunizations these are two diseases I am especially interested in seeing.

I will be upgrading the entire site soon to simplify and refocus on the most beneficial parts of Swala.org. Fulltime work has kept me quite busy lately but I plan to put in added energy to make Swala successful! Please stay tuned!

-Aaron

I caught an interesting article this morning on the second page of the Wall Street Journal. Written by Nick Timiraos, it is entitled "Why a Market-Driven Vaccine Plan Faces Big Obstacles". Its a summary outlook on the recent developments concerning how to complete the development of vaccines whose major customer base is located in developing countries (i.e the poorest of the poor).