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Examples of emerging uses of Google Earth in public health
- Use of Google Earth to develop city infrastructure maps and display spatial patterns of mosquito-borne dengue;
Lozano-Fuentes et al. 2008. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 86: 718–25;
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/9/07-045880.pdf - Use of Google Earth to track polio virus down the Congo River;
Kamadjeu 2009. International Journal of Health Geographics 8: 4;
http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/pdf/1476-072X-8-4.pdf - Use of Google Earth to display patterns of arthropod pathogen vectors;
Moffett et al. 2009. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 3: e378;
http://www.plosntds.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0000378
http://www.diseasevectors.org - Use of Google Earth to map malaria;
Malaria Atlas Project (http://www.map.ox.ac.uk);
http://earth.google.com/outreach/kml_entry.html#tMalaria%20Atlas%20Project