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American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
NASA scientists report on new technology to help protect US troops from infectious diseases
December 28th, 2008
Representatives from NASA convened in New Orleans today to report at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting the results from a NASA-enhanced computerized system to assess environmental and health concerns for deployed U.S. forces. The Global Situational Awareness Tool (GSAT), developed and operated by the Air Force Special Operations Command, is a computerized set of linkable databases that characterizes and predicts health risks and other dangers to U.S. troops and multi-national forces in Afghanistan and other areas. The enhanced GSAT will monitor malaria prevalence and estimate future outbreaks by using epidemiological time series and...
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Source: VerticalNews Science (2008-12-28)
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