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Nick Barber: Want to know few of the swine flu there is an app for that. Doctors at Harvard medical school have condensed their tens of thousands of pages of research into an easily use iPhone app called HMS mobile swine flu center. It includes maps, videos and information on virus prevention, detection and treatment.
Dr. Anthony Komaroff: The iPhone swine flu app will do a number of things for instance how do you protect yourself if there are people nearby coughing for instance, how do you, how far do you have to be away to protect yourself. How do you protect yourself in public places? How do you protect your hands from getting contaminated?
Nick Barber: Dr. Komaroff a senior physician at Brigham Women's Hospital in Boston educates the whereabouts how best to avoid the virus through practices like the elbow bump.
Dr. Anthony Komaroff: During an epidemic you should avoid shaking hands even with people who don't look sick instead try this new kind of greeting, the elbow bump. Your elbow can't catch a virus from someone else's elbow.
Nick Barber: The app can also ask you a series of questions to determine if you might have the swine flu. There are also tips on how to create a survival kit and even a map to show areas of outbreaks.
Dr. Anthony Komaroff: So here is a map in my GPS shows that I am localized here in the Northeast United States and it will tell me by the red flag that this is an epidemic area right now and that the virus is definitely present and the people with symptoms could very well have the virus.
Nick Barber: It took Dr. Komaroff and his team about 21/2 months to develop the application and while they provided the videos, research and data, they hired a software development team to design the actual app. Komaroff hopes that the swine flu app is one of the first of many mobile device applications.
Dr. Anthony Komaroff: We are big believers in mobiles devices and the fact that lot of people have questions about their health everyday, that they want an instant answer for and really the only way to deliver that instant answer is with the mobile device. So we are hoping that we'll be developing a lot more applications for the iPhone and other mobile devices on a broad spectrum of health topics.
Nick Barber: He wouldn't say how much the development of the swine flu have caused or how many people have downloaded it. It's available through the Apple app store now for a $1.99. Reporting from Harvard Medical School at Boston I am Nick Barber IDG news service
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