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Open source tool helps fight measles

Publication:TectonicDate:Dec 04 2007
Reporter:James Archibald

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The Washington Post on Friday reported that global measles fatalities had been reduced by two-thirds following stepped-up vaccination campaigns since 2000.

Furthermore, this phenomenal success had a helping hand from open source software. Coverage of these measles vaccination campaigns has been carried out using pocket computers running an open-source program, EpiSurveyor, developed by a Washington-based nonprofit, DataDyne.




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