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Disaster Surveillance Revisited: Passive, Active and Electronic Syndromic Surveillance during Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, LA - 2005
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Surveillance strategies following major natural disasters have varied widely with respect to methods used to collect and analyze data. Following Hurricane Katrina, public health concerns included infectious disease outbreaks, injuries, mental health… read more… implemented on September 9 (through October 15) in all functioning hospital EDs, community clinics, Disaster … for 16%, injuries (e.g., MVA, trauma, falls) represented 26%, and exacerbation of chronic illness (e.g., asthma, … in disasters. Crit Care Med 2005 33(Suppl):S29-S33. 2. de Ville de Goyet C, Zeballos JL. 1988. Communicable …