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School Absenteeism Surveillance Data during the 2009 Influenza A/H1N1 Pandemic
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In April 2009, a novel strain of influenza A was detected in Mexico, which quickly spread to the United States and the rest of the world. In response to the pandemic, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (NH DHHS) developed a… read more… reporting form was developed and placed on a NH DHHS website. Access to the reporting form website was through a secure NH Department of Education (DOE) web portal, and school nurses were asked to voluntarily … calculated. Rates for overall absenteeism and absenteeism due to ILI were aggregated by school administrative unit … -
Ten Years of Syndromic Surveillance in New Hampshire: Innovation, Experience and Outcomes
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In response to the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, the NH Department of Health and Human Services (NH DHHS) engaged state and external partners in the design of an early warning surveillance system to support bioterrorism and emergency… read more… (2) early detection of naturally occur- ring outbreaks (i.e., influenza). The OTC pharmaceutical system was … later expanded to include drill down custom querying for all 26 acute care hospitals (allowing NH to realize … and identified reportable disease occur- rences (i.e., Lyme disease) and nonreportable clusters (i.e., carbon … -
Use of emergency department data for case finding following a community anthrax exposure
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On 24 December 2009, a female New Hampshire resident was confirmed to have gastrointestinal anthrax on the basis of clinical findings and laboratory testing. Her source of anthrax was not immediately known, so the New Hampshire… read more… of emergency department encounters between 1 October and 26 December was conducted immediately after confirmation of … surveillance for possible cases continued between 26 December and 31 January, 2010. DHHS’s statewide emergency …