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This week in PLoS Medicine, the team behind HealthMap, a web-based tool to monitor and track infectious disease, discuss updates to the tool.HealthMap trawls news and health websites for references to illness and then plots them on an interactive map of the world, powered by Google Maps. Its algorithms are context-specific to distinguish mention of a new disease vaccine from a disease outbreak.It can now handle data from English, Chinese, Spanish, Russian and French websites, with other language readers in development.