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Interest of Syndromic Surveillance within the Armed Forces in French Guiana for Early Warning
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This paper describes the early warning that has been activated by the syndromic surveillance system installed within the Armed Forces in French Guiana and the consequences for Public Health decisions.… of repellents for soldiers, etc.). The situation stayed un- der control. On the civilian side, even if the alarm was … -
Evaluation of the NATO Disease Surveillance System in Kosovo in 2010
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The 2010 NATO DSS experiment was the second deployment of the French ‘Alerte et Surveillance en Temps Re´el’ (ASTER) system within a multinational armed task force in real operational conditions. This experiment was scheduled within the ASTER… read more… I, Preventive Medicine Department, Kiel, Germany E-mail: jb.meynard@wanadoo.fr Objective The new NATO Disease … -
Implementation of a New Syndromic Surveillance System in April 2006 in French Guiana
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An outbreak of dengue fever has occured in French Guiana since the end of November 2005 until July 2006. The dengue serotype circulating was DEN-2, responsible of more than 2 000 confirmed cases and 4 deaths. The previous… read more… physicians involved and weekly collected by telephone, mail or fax in the cen- ter of control in Cayenne. Those …