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Preparing for the Pandemic: A Review of State Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Plans Reveals Increased Reliance on Advanced Surveillance; Recommendations for Pandemic Influenza Surveillance
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In response to increasing reports of avian influenza being identified throughout the eastern hemisphere, the U.S. Homeland Security Council, the Infectious Disease Society of America, and others have called for expansion of… read more -
Influenza Surveillance in Connecticut: Understanding the 2005-06 Season while Preparing for Pandemic Influenza
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This paper examines the continued usefulness, through the 2005-06 influenza season, of a hospital admissions-based syndromic surveillance system as a supplement to laboratory and clinical influenza surveillance in preparation for pandemic influenza. -
Ten Years After Amerithrax: Have Improvements to Our Bioterrorism and Influenza Surveillance Networks Enhanced Our Preparedness?
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The use of syndromic surveillance systems by state and local health departments for the detection of bioterrorist events and emerging infections has greatly increased since 2001. While these systems have proven useful for tracking influenza and… read more -
Ebola, Enterovirus, MERS, Novel Flu, and other Challenges for Public Health Surveillance Practitioners
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Public health practitioners endeavor to expand and refine their syndromic and other advanced surveillance systems that are designed to supplement their existing laboratory testing and disease surveillance toolkit. While much of the development and… read more -
Use of a public health working group to coordinate multi-jurisdiction response to bioterrorism surveillance signals and influenza outbreaks
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The use of syndromic surveillance systems to detect illness and outbreaks in the mid 1990s in New York City resulted in recommendations for increased use of these systems for detection of bioterrorist agents, and tracking influenza… read more