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Anticipatory surveillance for mass gatherings: a novel application of mass media surveillance
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Public health and medical research on mass gatherings (MGs) are emerging disciplines. MGs present surveillance challenges quite different from routine outbreak monitoring, including prompt detection of outbreaks of an unusual … read more -
Comparison of Distribute and ILINet for national influenza surveillance
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During the spring of 2009, a public health emergency was declared in response to the emergence of the 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) virus. Owing to the response, timely data were needed to improve situational awareness and to inform… read more -
Effect of expanded recommendations for pediatric seasonal influenza vaccination: an international comparison
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Seasonal influenza epidemics are responsible for over 200,000 hospitalizations in the United States per year, and 39,000 of them are in children. In the United States, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices guides… read more -
Evaluating a standard influenza-like illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot
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The Distribute project began in 2006 as a distributed, syndromic surveillance demonstration project that networked state and local health departments to share aggregate emergency department-based influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome… read more -
BioSense program redesign
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The BioSense program’s mission is to support and improve public health surveillance infrastructure and human capacity required to monitor (with minimal lag) critical population health indicators of the scope and severity of acute… read more -
Can all-cause school absenteeism be used to optimize the timing of school closure in response to pandemic influenza?
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School closure has long been proposed as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in reducing the transmission of pandemic influenza. Children are thought to have high transmission potential because of their low immunity to circulating… read more -
Crowdout: When do other events hinder informal disease surveillance?
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Informal surveillance systems like HealthMap are effective at the early detection of outbreaks. However, reliance on informal sources such as news media makes the efficiency of these systems vulnerable to newsroom constraints, namely high-profile… read more -
Do geographic trends of social media indicate risk of secondary infectious disease outbreaks?
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A devastating cholera outbreak began in Haiti in 2010. Sequencing of Vibrio cholerae isolates showed that the epidemic was likely the result of the introduction of cholera from a distant geographic source. The same strain of cholera was detected in… read more