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Anticipatory surveillance for mass gatherings: a novel application of mass media surveillance
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Public health and medical research on mass gatherings (MGs) are emerging disciplines. MGs present surveillance challenges quite different from routine outbreak monitoring, including prompt detection of outbreaks of an unusual … read more… to the MG, preferably well in advance. These locations may be identified through study of historic air travel … component of the system. Disease inclusion criteria may be on the basis of virulence, R0 value, herd immunity, … mass media surveillance systems like Health- Map may examine tens of thousands of internet addresses hourly. …