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Detecting Previously Unseen Outbreaks with Novel Symptom Patterns
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Commonly used syndromic surveillance methods based on the spatial scan statistic first classify disease cases into broad, pre-existing symptom categories ("prodromes") such as respiratory or fever, then detect spatial clusters where the recent… read more… prodrome is unexpectedly high. Novel emerging infections may have very specific and anomalous symptoms which should … M. A spatial scan statistic. Commun Stat Theor Meth. 1997;26:1481�96. 2. Blei D, Ng A, Jordan M. Latent Dirichlet … Abstracts Emerging Health Threats Journal 2011. # 2011 Y. Liu and D.B. Neill This is an Open Access article …