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Description

Under leadership of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Operations, Security and Preparedness has established the Veterans Affairs Integrated Operations Center, with the goal of enhancing integration and analysis of data, and information from VA’s preparedness partners, both internal and external, for timely decision support.

Objective

The objective of this study is to describe Veterans Affairs Integrated Operations Center-enabled collaborations to enhance the synergy of relevant data/information from Veterans Affairs (VA) and non-VA partners for improved early warning, and situational awareness of infectious disease threats.

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Description

Multiple surveillance activities have been conducted in Great Britain (GB) with the objective of estimating the occurrence of scrapie, a fatal neurological infectious disease of small ruminants: statutory reporting of clinical cases, annual surveys on sections of the population and occasional anonymous postal surveys. None of the surveillance sources is either unbiased or comprehensive and if the progress of control schemes is to be closely monitored, better estimates of disease occurrence are required. With this objective, the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) funded a project to: i)provide estimates of the frequency of scrapie that integrate currently available surveillance data; and ii)inform the most effective surveillance strategies that will result in sensitive systems for the detection of changes in disease prevalence in time. To make this review as comprehensive as possible it should also: i)consider clinical disease and infection at both individual animal and holding level; ii) subject to data availability, extend all analyses to the recently detected atypical form of scrapie and iii) in a context of scarce and competitive resources, approach the problem efficiently. The approaches used within this project, outlined below, describe the efficient use and integration of all existing sources to evaluate the surveillance effort. Three surveillance attributes were of particular interest in the evaluation process: sensitivity, representativeness and cost.

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