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Advantages of real time surveillance for outbreak detection and management

Description

It is admitted that real time surveillance system permits to reduce delay of outbreak detection, and preventive measures implementation. It is usually based on pre diagnostic numeric data collection and transmission. ASTER (Alerte et surveillance en temps reel) is a real time surveillance system for French Armed Forces deployed in French Guiana and Djibouti, constituted by 2 kinds of networks : several declaration networks and one analysis network. On June 2011, an outbreak occurred among a French Army Regiment in Djibouti, which has permitted to evaluate ASTER in real conditions.

 

Objective

To discuss advantages of real time surveillance system within Armed Forces, using a real outbreak case.

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