Google Trends Dengue, Dengue Monitoring Service

Internet giant, Google, today (06/01/2011) announced that Google Dengue Trends, a tool for surveillance of tropical diseases caused by dengue virus, has been launched in 38 languages ​​and 5 countries, including Indonesia.

Dengue Google Trends provides estimates close to real-time on the activity of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) to track the popularity of a particular Google search words, thus helping the public and health officials to prepare for outbreaks of dengue. Dengue is a virus that spreads through mosquito bites that cause symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, skin rash and mild bleeding. This virus infects more than 100 million people worldwide each year.
Activities Real vs. Approximate Indonesian dengue fever Google Activity Indonesia Real vs. Google Estimates

According to the Directorate of Animal Disease Control Sourced (Dir P2B2), Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia, in 2010 and Indonesia has the highest dengue cases in ASEAN with 150,000 cases and 1317 people die from this disease. There is no vaccine or specific medication for dengue fever so that public health efforts, especially focused on helping people to take precautionary measures so as not infected by this disease.

Usually need time to collect, analyze and provide information on dengue cases to the public through health information resources from various institutions. Dengue With Google Trends, the Indonesian people can go online anytime to track the latest dengue activity in Indonesia. Because updated every day, Google Trends provides an early indicator of dengue on dengue activity, even before the official announcement submitted.