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Emergency Department Patients with Gastrointestinal Symptoms During Federal Holidays, Miami-Dade 2007-2010
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People usually celebrate holidays by inviting family and friends to have food at home, or by gathering and eating at restaurants or in other public venues. This increased exposure to food with a common source can create conditions for outbreaks of… read more… down by age groups (0�4, 5�17, 18�64, 65 and plus and all-age). Database analysis was conducted using SAS 9.2. … permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 … -
Tracking emergency department (ED) patients with gastrointestinal symptoms during a Norovirus epidemic in Miami-Dade
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From January to March 2010, thirteen outbreaks of Norovirus infection were reported to the Epidemiology, Disease Control and Immunization Service (EDC-IS), up from four outbreaks in the entire 2008 and same number during 2009. … read more… ec-09 1-Jan-10 1-F eb-10 1-M ar-10 1-A pr-10 Date P at ie nt s in O ut br ea ks 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 … 3 consecutive days of red flags were posted among the all-age group. The next leg up in the uptrend of the count … than an actual increase in incidence. Rotavirus infection did not appear to make a contribution to the increase in the … -
Using ESSENCE to Track a Gastrointestinal Outbreak in a Homeless Shelter in Miami-Dade County, 2008
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Although Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) provides tools to detect a significant alert regarding an unusual public health event, combining that information with … read more… discovered that on June 16, the residents that became ill did not eat food from the cafeteria but rather from food … period of time, interviews could not be conducted with all of the ill persons. CONCLUSIONS This study verified that … demonstrates how important it is to carefully monitor all clusters and not only those automatically created by the …