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  • Online Reports of Foodborne Illness Capture Foods Implicated in Official Foodborne Outbreak Reports

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    Traditional surveillance systems only capture a fraction of the estimated 48 million yearly cases of foodborne illness in the United States due to few affected individuals seeking medical care and lack of reporting to appropriate authorities. Non-… read more
    … Objective We assessed whether foodservice reviews on Yelp.com (a business review site) can be used to support … Objective We assessed whether foodservice reviews on Yelp.com (a business review site) can be used to support …
  • Expanding a Gazetteer-based Approach for Geo-Parsing Text from Media Reports on Global Disease Outbreaks

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    HealthMap (www.healthmap.org) is a freely accessible, automated real-time system that monitors, organizes, integrates, filters, and maps online news about emerging diseases. The system performs geographic parsing (“geo-parsing”) of disease… read more
    … HealthMap ( www.healthmap.org ) is a freely accessible, automated … knowledge encoded in a gazetteer. BACKGROUND HealthMap (www.healthmap.org) is a freely accessible, automated … HealthMap (www.healthmap.org) is a freely accessible, automated …
  • 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
    … Olson et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 4949 SAS if preferred. Sites were asked … M, Buehler JW, Mostashari F. Adv Dis Surv 2008;5:185 www.isdsjournal.org/article/view/3307/2456. 2 Paladini M, … J, Murray E, Gunn J, Olson D. Adv Dis Surv 2008;5:50 www.isdsjournal.org/article/view/3252/2359. 3 Pendarvis J, …
  • 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
    … Redesign Collaboration Site (https://sites.google. com/site/biosenseredesign). Emerging Health Threats Journal … et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 40 strengthen existing surveillance … Health Threats Journal TA Kass-Hout et al. 2011, 4:s87 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 41 …
  • OutbreakMD: tracking and identifying disease outbreaks in post-earthquake Haiti

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    HealthMap is a real-time disease epidemic intelligence tracking and visualization system that collects information from general news media, individual first-hand reports and public health sources around the world. Gaps in this effort clearly occur… read more
    … Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA E-mail: chunara@gmail.com Objective OutbreakMD is a mobile Web application that … Chunara et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 5 even when no network connection is … Health Threats Journal R Chunara et al. 2011, 4:s12 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 6 …
  • 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
    … AG Hoen et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 36 part to infection rates averaging … reaction. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2004;23:S11–18. 2 Thompson WW, Shay DK, Weintraub E, Brammer L, Bridges CB, Cox NJ, et al. Influenza-associated hospitalizations in the …
  • Characterizing Socioeconomic Disparities in the Burden of Influenza and RSV Using Surveillance Data

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    To measure the impact, within administrative geographic areas, of household income on rates of visits due influenza and RSV among children using real-time syndromic surveillance.
    … towards defining this relationship. Given the mounting con- cern over an influenza pandemic disaster, the ques- … due to influenza and RSV of 14.4 per 1,000 visits (95% con- fidence interval [CI], 17.3-11.6 per 1,000). There is … contact John Brownstein, john_brownstein@harvard.edu www.chip.org Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;2:94 …
  • Digital Surveillance of the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Identifying Hot-spots for Emerging Zoonoses

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    The illegal wildlife trade is a multi-faceted, clandestine industry that has led to the disruption of fragile ecosystems, facilitated the spread of pathogens, and has led to the emergence of novel infectious diseases in humans, domestic animals, and… read more
    … and Vietnam (n�37, 4.0%). Conclusions Available at http://www.healthmap.org/wildlifetrade, the digital wildlife … 2008 [cited 2011 April 14]; Available from: http:// www.traffic.org/trade/. 4. Taylor L, Latham S, Woolhouse M. … purpose) Fig. 1. The wildlife trade website (http://www.healthmap.org/wildlife trade) showing time period from …