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Application of Event-Based Biosurveillance to Disease Emergence in Isolated Regions
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Argus is an event-based surveillance system which captures information from publicly available Internet media in multiple languages. The information is contextualized and indications and warning (I&W) of disease are identified. Reports are… read more… pii:19626. 2. www.laindustria.pe. 3. www.generaccion.com/noticia/80923/libertad-poblacion-atemorizada- … 925. 6. www.noticiastrujillo.com/index.php?option�com_content&task�view &id�40987&Itemid�56. *Wai-Ling Mui … -
Application of Event-Based Biosurveillance to the 2011 E. coli Outbreak in Germany
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Argus is an event-based, multi-lingual surveillance system which captures and analyzes information from publicly available Internet media. Argus produces reports that summarize and contextualize indications and warning (I&W) of emerging… read more… atypically severe symptoms in adult females. By May 26, state health authorities had identified over 600 EHEC … 3. www.opensource.gov. 4. hygimia69.blogspot.com. 5. www.expatica.com. 6. www.rki.de. *Emily Iarocci E-mail: … -
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. … -
Application of biosurveillance methodology to the 2010 Asian foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks
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Argus is an event-based, multi-lingual, biosurveillance system, which captures and analyzes information from publicly available internet media. Argus produces reports that summarize and contextualize direct, indirect, and… read more… early detection greatly contributed to this outcome.4 In May, Japan implemented its first ever FMD vaccination … Organization (OIE) Terrestrial Animal Health Code; on 28 May 2010, the United States Department of Agriculture placed … -
Indications and Warning of Pandemic Influenza Compared to Seasonal Influenza
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If the next influenza pandemic emerges in Southeast Asia, the identification of early detection strategies in this region could enable public health officials to respond rapidly. Accurate, real-time influenza surveillance is… read more… years. The media surveillance approach used here may be useful in the early detection of an anomalous … -
Document classification toward efficient event-based biosurveillance
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Event-based biosurveillance is a practice of monitoring diverse information sources for the detection of events pertaining to human health. Online documents, such as news articles on the Internet, have commonly been the … read more… that is, few labeled irrelevant (or relevant) articles may be available because of labeling bias (or to the … N, Doan S, Kawazoe A, Goodwin RM, Conway M, Tateno Y, et al. BioCaster: detecting public health rumors with a …