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Late Season Influenza-like Illness in Georgia: Prospective Detection of an Illness Cluster Using Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance
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This paper describes a cluster of influenza-like illness (ILI) prospectively identified through emergency department (ED) syndromic surveillance (SS).… E-mail alerts are generated by SendSS and distributed to all GA Health Districts for five priority syndromes, … positive rapid test for influenza B was identified on May 26. The ICP performed additional investigations that revealed eight employees had been absent due to ILI from May 24-31. CONCLUSIONS GA SS aided in the …