EPIDEMIOLOGY: Indonesia Taps Village Wisdom to Fight Bird Flu -- Normile 315 (5808): 30 -- Science
Here's a story about "citizen science" that is truly life-and-death. In order to identify and fight bird flu (OK, "avian influenza" of the H5N1 variety), Indonesia is recruiting people for "participatory epidemiology." In other words, citizen science isn't just something nice for the science education world, but is a real way of addressing the need for more data than professional researchers can collect.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
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