Trying to avoid all those hacking, sneezing cold and flu sufferers who are likely to pass on their ailment on to you? Now you don’t have to wait until you’re within sneezing distance There’s an app that alerts you to sick zones before you even head out the door. A kind of a sickness scanner, […]

Health app: Social media scanner warns when sick people are nearby

December 9, 2013 By LBSzone

Trying to avoid all those hacking, sneezing cold and flu sufferers who are likely to pass on their ailment on to you? Now you don’t have to wait until you’re within sneezing distance

There’s an app that alerts you to sick zones before you even head out the door. A kind of a sickness scanner, Sickweather is an iPhone app that gathers and analyses all mentions of ill health on social media and plots them on a map.