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Google revealed on the assistance of the state of Mexico related to the swine flu spread. Help is realized in the form of a new version of Google Trends special Flu Mexico.

This service was first released in the United States in November 2008. Google Trends Flu update on the advice of scientists-scientists who work in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States.

Flu Google Trends to help tracking the impact of swine flu this fall with the tide to monitor the search for the keywords that are associated with influenza, which was then show in the graph. Version that is for Mexico itself is actually still have a trial because the difference is in the United States, Google said.

Quoted NYTimes, Friday (1/5/2009), the differences are located in the historical data is not useful to validate that the data is searched on Google it really correlate with the spread going indeed. However, although only an experiment, Google is still sure the service is very accurate in detecting the spread of swine flu.

Google is active in helping the world in the detection of swine flu. In addition to the services intended for this country of Mexico, Google also has a special map Flu Pigs more universal.

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