Patent attributes
A method and a system for predicting the local area impact of the spread of global infectious diseases are provided. The system includes: providing a global pathogen risk factors database having data related to local area vulnerability of a group of human pathogens across a plurality of areas, a global pathogen activity database having data related to the activity of the group of human pathogens in the plurality of geographies, and a global transport database having data related to travel patterns in and/or between the plurality of areas. A method of processing data in each of the databases to generate a pathogen vulnerability index, a pathogen activity index and a transportability index to generate a risk indicator indicative of the local area impact of individual global infectious diseases.
