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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… to only 24 released by WHO and 623 found on the ProMED mail system. News sources are shown to be especially … -
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… McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada E-mail: tik2@cdc.gov Objective The objective of this study is … -
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… University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA E-mail: Sumiko.Mekaru@childrens.harvard.edu Objective To … -
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… in the United States using pediatric hospitalization visits with ICD-9 codes equal to 486.00, 487.00, 487.10 or … -
Automated chronic disease surveillance and visualization using electronic health record data
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Chronic diseases are the leading causes of mortality and morbidity for Americans but public health surveillance for these conditions is limited. Health departments currently use telephone interviews, medical surveys, and death certificates to gather… read more… records; visuali- zation; diabetes *Michael Klompas E-mail: mklompas@partners.org (page number not for citation … -
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 present with Google trends; 2009. *John Brownstein E-mail: john.brownstein@childrens.harvard.edu (page number not … -
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… HealthMap project. PLoS Med. 2008;5:e151. *David Scales E-mail: david.scales@childrens.harvard.edu (page number not … -
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… outbreak. Am J Trop Med Hyg. (in press). *Rumi Chunara E-mail: rumi@alum.mit.edu (page number not for citation …