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State Foodborne Illness Surveillance and Response Laws: Compilation and Analysis
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Foodborne illnesses sicken 48 million and kill 3,000 Americans every year, presenting an enduring threat to the public’s health. In just the past three years alone, the United States has experienced at least four major multistate outbreaks in food.… read more -
Developing a Tool to Cost Gaps in Implementation of IHR (2005) Core Capacities
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The International Health Regulations were revised in 2005 to adapt to increasing diversity of emerging health threats, globalization, changing trends in trade and travel, and the need for collective effort to address the international spread of… read more -
Applications of Syndromic Surveillance in Resource Poor Settings: A Series of Case Studies
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Particularly in resource-poor settings, syndromic surveillance has been proposed as a feasible solution to the challenges in meeting the new disease surveillance requirements included in the World Health Organization's International Health… read more