Whois & Analysis for healthmap.org

HealthMap is a freely accessible, automated electronic information system for monitoring, organizing, and visualizing reports of global disease outbreaks according to geography, time, and infectious disease agent.

In operation since September 2006, and created by John Brownstein, PhD and Clark Freifeld, MS, HealthMap acquires data from a variety of freely available electronic media sources (e.g. ProMED-mail, Eurosurveillance, Wildlife Disease Information Node) to obtain a comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases.

Ebola virus disease (EVD), also known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) or simply Ebola, is a viral hemorrhagic fever of humans and other primates caused by ebolaviruses.

Signs and symptoms typically start between two days and three weeks after contracting the virus with a fever, sore throat, muscular pain, and headaches.

Then, vomiting, diarrhea and rash usually follow, along with decreased function of the liver and kidneys.

At this time some people begin to bleed both internally and externally.

The disease has a high risk of death, killing between 25 and 90 percent of those infected, with an average of about 50 percent.

This is often due to low blood pressure from fluid loss, and typically follows six to sixteen days after symptoms appear.

Infection is the invasion of an organism's body tissues by disease-causing agents, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to these organisms and the toxins they produce.

Infectious disease, also known as transmissible disease or communicable disease, is illness resulting from an infection.

Disease surveillance is an epidemiological practice by which the spread of disease is monitored in order to establish patterns of progression.

The main role of disease surveillance is to predict, observe, and minimize the harm caused by outbreak, epidemic, and pandemic situations, as well as increase knowledge about which factors contribute to such circumstances.

A key part of modern disease surveillance is the practice of disease case reporting.

A virus is a small infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of other organisms.

Viruses can infect all types of life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea.