IBM Offers Free Software To Track Pandemic Spread

From the San Jose Mercury :

IBM said Thursday that it is giving health authorities and others around the world expanded access to free software it partly developed in San Jose to help track bird flu and other infectious diseases.

The software - dubbed Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler, or STEM - can create computer models of how diseases spread geographically. IBM said it would make the software available on the Web site of the Eclipse Foundation, which provides open-source software.

IBM last year announced that it was providing STEM to the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and others as part of a global initiative to help stop the spread of bird flu.