Aid workers use computer model to help stop cholera in Yemen dead in its tracks

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/08/29/aid-workers-use-computer-model.html

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Good use of processing power for good but, wouldn’t simple maps showing historical flood zones do the same?

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It’s not a matter of identifying potential flood zones but one of knowing where it WILL flood within the next month.

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the UK government’s meteorological authority is the ‘Met Office’, not the ‘Met’, Seamus :wink:
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So then, it’s better to not drink the raw sewage? Good to know.

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Trump will be sending Yeman the bill later.

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Coincidentally, the 1854 cholera outbreak in London was possibly the first example of a statistics-based approach to disease control when Dr. John Snow* drew a map of cholera cases that pointed to a particular water pump as the source of the outbreak.

*(Really. Apparently he did know something after all.)

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Cholera is not caused by a virus. It is an infection of the bacteria Vibrio cholerae.

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Yeah these kinds of measures should be taken in the to save our planet.

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