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...There are many satisfyingly sly flourishes in Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman's script. You probably always assumed, as I did, that McCoy was called "Bones" because he was a doctor. But as he meets Kirk, he's half-drunk and grumbling about how his ex-wife just cleaned him out in a divorce. "All I've got left is my bones," he says woefully. Now there's some back-story...
...routinely sample and test patients to see what bugs they have and might be circulating in the community. But these systems have many moving parts, relying on state, local and even community health-care workers to both recognize and report anything out of the ordinary. Once a community doctor sees what he thinks might be an unusual series of flu cases, for example, he would have to alert his local or state health departments, which would then investigate further by testing samples from the sick patients - a process that could take up to two weeks...
When the first U.S. patients fell victim to the new H1N1 flu, they may not have immediately thought to call their doctor or run to the nearest emergency room. Instead, they probably sat down in front of their computers and Googled "flu symptoms" or "fever" or "chills" or perhaps even "treatment...
...infectious diseases, their benefit is that they rely not on hospital data but real-time information from people who are in the process of getting sick. "What we are seeing are trends of what people are thinking about at home, perhaps before they might go to see a doctor," says Jeremy Ginsberg, lead engineer of Google Flu Trends. (See the top five swine...
...communication with the outside world - no newspapers or telephones - so we didn't know much about this swine flu or how bad it was," he recalls. "When the woman died we were scared that this could be the fate of us all." Their fears only increased when a doctor and nurse who had been attending to sufferers also developed symptoms, and themselves became patients in the ward. (See the top five swine...