OUTBREAK: a user-friendly georeferencing online tool for disease surveillance.
The current COVID-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 3.7 million victims and it will cause more deaths in the coming months. Tools that track the number and locations of cases are critical for surveillance and help in making policy decisions for controlling the outbreak. However, the current surveillance web-based dashboards run on proprietary platforms, which are often expensive and require specific computational knowledge. We developed a user-friendly web tool, named OUTBREAK, that facilitates epidemic surveillance by showing in an animated graph the timeline and geolocations of cases of an outbreak. It permits even non-specialist users to input data most conveniently and track outbreaks in real-time. We applied our tool to visualize the SARS 2003, MERS, and COVID19 epidemics, and provided them as examples on the website. Through the zoom feature, it is also possible to visualize cases at city and even neighborhood levels. We made the tool freely available at https://outbreak.sysbio.tools/ . OUTBREAK has the potential to guide and help health authorities to intervene and minimize the effects of outbreaks.
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de Azambuja Rodrigues PM; Valente RH; Brunoro GVF; Nakaya HTI; Araújo-Pereira M; Bozza PT; Bozza FA; Trugilho MRO
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