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Syndromic Surveillance System for the G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit Meeting 2008
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Infection Control Law in Japan has asked doctors to cooperate in syndromic surveillance for pandemic flu and smallpox since 2007. However, doctors have to report by typing the number of patients on the web site, or by sending a… read more… private research company, their health condition through PC or cellular phone. Though aberration signals are reported … -
Experimental Syndromic Surveillance in Japan Using Three Aspects: OTC, Outpatients Visits and Ambulance Transfer
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We started an experimental syndromic surveillance using 1)OTC and 2)outpatients visits, in the last year and included 3)ambulance transfer from this year so as to early detect bioterrorism attack (BTA).… sales data for a common cold from 600 pharmacies in all over Japan. This includes the data from November, 2002 … to 27th June 2005, focusing on five types of symptoms, i.e. fever, respiratory symptoms, diarrhea, vomiting, and … 2,3) We estimate the baseline estimation prospectively, i.e. sample period is from January 1st 2003 to yesterday, …