Press Releases
26 Apr 2009: Veratect the Company to First Sound Alarm on Swine Influenza Makes Data on the Spread of this Disease Public
3 Dec 2008: Global Corporations at risk from "Serious Threat of Civil Unrest" in Orissa, India, states Veratect
23 Oct 2008: Veratect Introduces Global System for Tracking and Measuring Emerging Threats of Civil Unrest
Pandemic H1N1 (2009) Press Coverage
Tech Flash - Veratect sets alarm on swine flu (26 Apr 2009)
Wall Street Journal - The Daily Start-Up: Swine’s And Werewolves (27 Apr 2009)
Wired Science - Tracking Internet Chatter Helps Spot Swine Flu Outbreak (27 Apr 2009)
KOMO 4 Seattle - Kirkland Company claims to be first to detect swine flu outbreak (27 Apr 2009)
KING 5 Seattle - Kirkland Company says it was first to sound swine flu alarm (27 Apr 2009)
CBC.ca - Did pandemic-watchers miss the signs online? (1 May 2009)
Guardian - How swine flu infected the web (28 Apr 2009)
Cosmic Log MSNBC - FLU FORECASTS COME TRUE (28 Apr 2009)
Financial Times - Delay in raising flu alarm blunted response (29 Apr 2009)
USA Today - People tap Internet for swine flu info (29 Apr 2009)
Q13 FOX Seattle - Viral chatter: Tech companies mine Web sources for early warning on disease outbreaks (29 Apr 2009)
The Globe and Mail - The boy at swine flu's ground zero (29 Apr 2009)
CBS News - Tracking H1N1: An Exact Science?
(30 Apr 2009)
Washington Post - REPORTING HEALTH THREATS
System Set Up After SARS Epidemic Was Slow to Alert Global Authorities (30 Apr 2009)
The McClatchy Company - Company warned officials of flu 18 days before alert was issued
(30 Apr 2009)
Media Inquiries
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Kirkland, WA 98033
Phone: 425-952-4500
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