ON THE CUTTING EDGE: Morbid App
A new application for the T-Mobile G1 (the "Google phone") will alert a user on the concentration of people in a particular zip code who have respiratory illnesses, and assess the risk of catching someone else’s cold or flu, reports The Associated Press:
The "Zicam Cold & Flu Companion" will say, for instance, that 8 percent to 14 percent of the people in your ZIP code have respiratory illnesses, representing a "Moderate" risk level. …
Matrixx Initiatives Inc., the Arizona company that makes products under the Zicam brand, gets the information on disease levels from Surveillance Data Inc. - which gets its data from polling health care providers and pharmacies.
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