Google donates $1M to help fight Zika virus spread

Google is donating $1 million to fight the spread of the Zika virus and offering engineers and data scientists help to determine where it will hit next.
Zika has become an epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean since last fall. The virus is mainly spread through mosquito bites and has been potentially linked to birth defects.
Google said in a blog post that it is in a good position to assist since its mission is to help people find information, and it has experience analyzing large sets of