A small group of epidemiologists is abandoning pen and paper for digital maps with multiple dimensions to track infectious disease outbreaks. Alan Dove takes stock of a field in transition.
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Dove, A. News Feature: Eye in the sky. Nat Med 10, 1151–1152 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1104-1151
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