9 computer software for mapping, modeling, and analyzing novel epidemics; computer software platform for disease-spread monitoring and prediction; downloadable software and mobile applications for providing information and data concerning epidemics; computer software, computer software platform, and downloadable software and mobile applications, for real-time monitoring of epidemic hotspots and predictions of disease spread based on spread sequences and progressions of similar diseases, prior disease seasonal histories, and travel patterns; computer software, computer software platform, and downloadable software and mobile applications, for monitoring of disease hotspots with metropolitan-level geospatial resolution; computer software, computer software platform, and downloadable software and mobile applications, for modeling and prediction of disease spread using network flow models