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Houston Health Department’s response to the threat of Zika virus
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Zika virus spread quickly through South and Central America in 2015. The City of Houston saw its first travel-related Zika cases in December of 2015. On January 29th, the City held the first planning meeting with regional partners from healthcare,… read more -
Disaster Surveillance: Perspectives from Federal, State, and Local levels
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In this panel, the presenters will discuss their perspective in responding to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Hurricane Harvey made landfall on August 25th and over the course of 4 days dropped approximately 27 trillion gallons of water on Texas and… read more -
Exploring Drug Overdose Mortality Data in Harris County, Texas
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Drug overdose mortality is a growing problem in the United States. In 2017 alone over 72,000 deaths were attributed to drug overdose, most of which were caused by fentanyl and fentanyl analogs (synthetic opioids). While nearly every community has… read more -
Integrated West Nile Virus Surveillance in Harris County, Texas, 2003 to 2018
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West Nile virus (WNV) is the leading cause of autochthonous arboviral disease in the United States. The virus is primarily spread to people through the bite of infected Culex species of mosquitos. WNV was first identified in Harris County, Texas, in… read more -
Jurisdictional Etiquette Workgroup: An offshoot of a Syndromic Surveillance Consortium
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Syndromic data is shifting the way surveillance has been done traditionally. Most recently, surveillance has gone beyond city limits and county boundary lines. In southeast Texas, a regional consortium of public health agencies and stakeholders in… read more -
Estimating FluNearYou Correlation to ILINet at Different Levels of Participation
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Flu Near You allows individuals to volunteer to be a sentinel node of the syndromic surveillance (SyS) network. The platform has the potential to provide insight into the spread of influenza-like illness (ILI). CDC’s ILINet is the gold standard for… read more -
Susceptibility Profile of Drug-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Based on ELR
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Since November 2014, the Houston Health Department has been receiving antimicrobial resistance information for Streptococcus pneumoniae from a safety net hospital via electronic laboratory reporting (ELR). Antimicrobial characteristics and… read more