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Crowdout: When do other events hinder informal disease surveillance?
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Informal surveillance systems like HealthMap are effective at the early detection of outbreaks. However, reliance on informal sources such as news media makes the efficiency of these systems vulnerable to newsroom constraints, namely high-profile… read more… Objective Reporting about large public health events may reduce effective disease surveillance by syndromic or … Difference 95% CI (low) 95% CI (high) Flu 1 Before 7.79 7.0 8.57 Flu 1 After 4.83 4.09 5.57 Flu 1 Parallel 1 4.89 … 4.56 Flu 2 After 4.56 2.55 6.57 Flu 2 Parallel 7.0 4.74 9.26 �ISDS 2011 Conference Abstracts Emerging Health Threats …