Massachusetts Health Map
CommonHealth introduces the Massachusetts HealthMap, a disease-tracking tool overseen by researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston with input from public health trackers, the media and you. Keep tabs on what’s happening around you, health-wise, and help others do the same. Is half your child’s grade out with stomach flu? Post a report. It may help other parents. Are chills and fever rampaging through your office? Have three of your neighbors reported rabid bats lately? Post it here. Or check your town for trouble spots. We tend to rely on word of mouth to find out important community health news, but now there’s another way. HealthMap, a non-profit project, tracks public health outbreaks around the world — and now from our neighborhoods. It gathers reports from official sources, including the Department of Public Health, and the media, and updates them hourly. Reports from the public are curated and updated once a day. To post a report, click on Outbreak Missing, and please be as specific as possible. Your identity will not be published.
