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Deadly Fungus Outbreak Hits Five West Coast Cities
In 2012 a mysterious and almost always fatal respiratory disease overwhelms the city of Seattle. Within days it is seen in Portland, Eugene and as far south as San Francisco. The outbreaks are so sudden and widespread that at first a terrorism attack is suspected.
Using Ushahidi the Center for Disease Control is able to quickly collect data and begin the work of epidemiology. The cause of the outbreak is a fungus called Cryptococcus gattii, a relatively common airborne agent. The fungus has recently become more deadly and this year, a "perfect storm" of spore release and prevailing winds distributed it to numerous West coast cities.
The difficulty for the CDC is to identify which illnesses or deaths are coming about because of the fungus, and which are part of an increased incidence in bacterial pneumonia.
Fortunately Ushahidi is able to rate and weight responses. Teams of CDC field workers begin a****sing information contributors, staff members of hospitals and first responders who are trained to a****s for Cryptococcus gattii. These first responders are also asked to follow-up on other local reports of pneumonia outbreaks to evaluate whether these are likely to be a result of the fungal agent. These data are collected in Ushahidi, processed, weighted and fed into a special database maintained by the CDC. Epidemiological predictions are made, the elderly, the young and infirm in certain parts of some cities are evacuated, NIOSH95 respirator masks are distributed and other measures taken to mitigate the spread of the disease.
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