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Use of Near-Real–Time Data to Inform Underage Drinking Surveillance in Nebraska
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Underage drinking is a significant public health problem in the United States as well as in Nebraska1-2. Alcohol consumption among underage youth accounts for approximately 5,000 deaths each year in the United States, including motor vehicle crash… read more -
Utility of Nontraditional Data Sources for Early Detection of Influenza
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Influenza surveillance is conducted through a complex network of laboratory and epidemiologic systems essential for estimating population burden of disease, selecting influenza vaccine viruses, and detecting novel influenza viruses with… read more -
Wikipedia: a tool to monitor seasonal diseases trends?
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Today, Internet, especially Wikipedia, is an important part of everyday life. People can notably use this popular free online encyclopedia to search health-related information. Recent studies showed that Wikipedia data can be used to monitor and to… read more -
Firearm Injury - Maricopa County Department of Public Health
Content Type: Syndrome
This syndrome attempts to capture acute GSW hospital visits and was developed based on existing syndromes shared by the community of practice in this forum post: https://www.healthsurveillance.org/forums/Posts.aspx?topic=1452124 This syndrome… read more -
Falls - Wisconsin Department of Health Services
Content Type: Syndrome
- Why the syndrome was created? This syndrome was created to track falling related emergency room visits.
- Syndromic surveillance system (e.g., ESSENCE, R STUDIO, RODS, etc.) ESSENCE…
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Seroprevalence of zoonotic diseases among farm animals in Kvemo Kartli (Georgia)
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Zoonotic diseases are an important cause of human morbidity and mortality; around 75% of recently emerging human infectious diseases are zoonoses. Herein we report the first seroprevalence study to include a range of emerging or re-emerging zoonotic… read more -
Soda Pop: A Time-Series Clustering, Alarming and Disease Forecasting Application
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The Biosurveillance Ecosystem (BSVE) is a biological and chemical threat surveillance system sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). BSVE is intended to be user-friendly, multi-agency, cooperative, modular and threat agnostic… read more -
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in the Veterans Health Administration, 2010 - 2016
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It is estimated that in the United States (US), unintentional non-fire related CO poisoning causes an average of 439 deaths annually, and in 2007 confirmed CO poisoning cases resulted in 21,304 ED visits and 2,302 hospitalizations (71 per million… read more