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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… J Mach Learn Res. 2003;3:993�1022. *Daniel B. Neill E-mail: neill@cs.cmu.edu (page number not for citation … -
Application of Event-Based Biosurveillance to the 2011 E. coli Outbreak in Germany
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Argus is an event-based, multi-lingual surveillance system which captures and analyzes information from publicly available Internet media. Argus produces reports that summarize and contextualize indications and warning (I&W) of emerging… read more… 5. www.expatica.com. 6. www.rki.de. *Emily Iarocci E-mail: iarocci@isis.georgetown.edu (page number not for … -
Analysis of 5 years of multi-stream surveillance and weather data in Champaign County
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INDICATOR is a multi-stream open source platform for biosurveillance and outbreak detection, currently focused on Champaign County in Illinois. It has been in production since 2008 and is currently receiving data from emergency department, patient… read more… illinois.edu/News/Stories/indicator/. *Ian Brooks E-mail: ian@ncsa.illinois.edu (page number not for citation … -
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 … -
Comparing Methods for Sentinel Surveillance Site Placement
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Influenza-like illness (ILI) data is collected via an Influenza Sentinel Provider Surveillance Network at the state level. Because participation is voluntary, locations of the sentinel providers may not reflect optimal geographic placement. This… read more… Science� Business Media; 2006. *Geoffrey Fairchild E-mail: geoffrey-fairchild@uiowa.edu (page number not for … -
Severe Influenza Pneumonia Surveillance: Clinical and Translational Epidemiology
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The threat of epidemics due to non-human strains of influenza A viruses is ever present1. Surveillance is a critical aspect of pandemic preparedness for early case detection2. Identification of the index cases of a pandemic virus can trigger public… read more… base. BMC Public Health. 2007;7:208. *Timothy Wiemken E-mail: tlwiem01@louisville.edu (page number not for citation … -
Clustering of U.S. Cities Based on Mortality from Influenza and Pneumonia
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Influenza is a major cause of mortality. In developed countries, mortality is at its highest during winter months, not only as a result of deaths from influenza and pneumonia but also as a result of deaths attributed to other diseases (e.g.… read more… Spring Harbor Lab Press. 1999;9:1106�15. *Eric Foster E-mail: eric-foster@uiowa.edu (page number not for citation …