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Global Disease Monitoring and Forecasting with Wikipedia
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Infectious disease remains costly in human and economic terms. Effective and timely disease surveillance is a critical component of prevention and mitigation strategies. The limitations of traditional disease surveillance systems have motivated new… read more -
Selecting Essential Information for BiosurveillanceÃA Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
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The National Strategy for Biosurveillance defines biosurveillance as 'the process of gathering, integrating, interpreting, and communicating essential information related to all-hazards threats or disease activity affecting human, animal, or plant… read more -
Tools and Apps to Enhance Situational Awareness for Global Disease Surveillance
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Situational awareness is important for both early warning and early detection of a disease outbreak, and analytics and tools that furnish information on how an infectious outbreak would either emerge or unfold provide enhanced situational awareness… read more -
Biosurveillance Data Stream Framework: A Novel Approach to Characterization and Evaluation
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Multiple data sources are used in a variety of biosurveillance systems. With the advent of new technologies, globalization, high performance computing, and "big data" opportunities, there are seemingly unlimited potential data streams that could be… read more -
Contextualizing Data Streams for Infectious Disease Surveillance
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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) was tasked with developing methods to determine the relevance of data streams for an integrated global biosurveillance system. We used a novel method of evaluating the effectiveness of data streams called the '… read more -
Enhancing Situational Awareness by Ground Truthing with Historical Outbreaks
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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has been funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to develop tools that enhance situational awareness in infectious disease surveillance. We have applied the concept of the surveillance window to the… read more -
Situational Awareness for Unfolding Gastrointestinal Outbreaks Using Historical Data
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The CDC defines a foodborne outbreak as two or more people getting the same illness from the same contaminated food or drink. These illnesses are often characterized as gastroenteritis until the causative agent is identified (bacterial or viral).… read more -
Military and Civilian Disease Outbreaks: A Comparative Analysis
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Using influenza like illness (ILI) data from the repository held by AFHSC, and publically available malaria data we characterized similarities and differences between military and civilian outbreaks. Pete Riley et al. utilized a similar ILI dataset… read more