• by Amy Corr  @MediaPostOTL, June 25, 2014

Random iPhone App of the week: This app is a dream for germaphobes and anyone looking to stay healthy year-round but still wanting to leave the house. Sickweather created an iPhone app that alerts users in real time when they enter Sick Zones: areas where illnesses are reported on social media. This time around, oversharing is caring. The latest update to the app lets users report illnesses directly and anonymously to the Sickweather map. So when a person publicly shares on Facebook or Twitter that their kid has strep throat, Sickweather files the post and then plots it on a map, heat sensor-style, so users can see areas with a high occurrence of 19 different threats to health, like whopping cough and high pollen counts. Sickweather users who travel near a Sick Zone will receive a real-time alert on their iPhone warning them of their proximity to said illness. Download the free app here.