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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… for adapting the Japanese algorithm for use with all-cause absenteeism, using data on the rate of … To determine the optimal pattern in school-specific all-cause absenteeism for use in informing school closure … ABSTRACT Can all-cause school absenteeism be used to optimize the timing … -
Zika Virus Speed and Direction: Reconstructing Zika Introduction in Brazil
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Local transmission of Zika virus has been confirmed in 67 countries worldwide and in 46 countries or territories in the Americas. On February 1, 2016 the World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern due to… read more… a Public Health Emergency of International Concern due to the increase in microcephaly cases and other … a Public Health Emergency of International Concern due to the increase in microcephaly cases and other … -
Web Search Query Data to Monitor Dengue Epidemics: a New Model for Dengue Surveillance
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With an estimated 500 million people infected each year, dengue ranks as one of the most significant mosquito-borne viral human diseases, and one of the most rapidly emerging vectorborne diseases. A variety of obstacles including bureaucracy and… read more… the overall dataset and a holdout subset of the data. All search queries were fully anonymized. This methodology … internet searches for influenza surveillance. Clin Infect Dis. 2008;47:1443� 8. 5. Choi H, Varian H. Predicting the … -
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… beyond an isolated case. Six countries in which cholera did or was suspected to have spread, and without endemic … permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 … -
Accurate Detection of Arbitrarily-Shaped Spatial Disease Clusters
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Methods for locating spatial clusters of diseases are typically variations of the circular scan statistic method. They restrict the number of potential clusters by considering all circular, rectangular, or elliptical regions, and then apply a… read more… restrict the number of potential clusters by considering all circular, rectangular, or elliptical regions, and then … area, certain sub-graphs are evaluated. These include all connected subgraphs within a circular window and … restrict the number of potential clusters by considering all circular, rectangular [2], or elliptical [3] regions, … -
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… to the household and community spread of influenza, due in This is an Open Access article distributed under the … children also reduces population-wide morbidity due to influenza.5 Acknowledgements This paper was presented … in children by polymerase chain reaction. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2004;23:S11–18. 2 Thompson WW, Shay DK, Weintraub E, … -
Evaluation of Online Media Reports for Global Infectious Disease Intelligence
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While traditional means of surveillance by governments, multi-national agencies, and institutional networks assist in reporting and confirming infectious disease outbreaks, these formal sources of information are limited by their… read more… REFERENCES 1.D. L. Heymann, G. R. Rodier, Lancet Infect Dis 1, 345-53 (Dec, 2001). 2.World Health Organization … -
Does Climate Predict the Timing of Peak Influenza Activity in the United States?
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Though spatio-temporal patterns of influenza spread have often suggested that environmental factors, such as temperature, solar radiation and humidity play a key role, few studies have directly assessed their effect on the timing… read more… with epidemic timing (95% CI: (-0.027, -0.004)). We did not find a significant relationship between either dew …