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  • Short Term Effects of Meteorological Parameters to Respiratory Infections with Fever

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    It has been noted since the era of Hippocrates that weather conditions at a specific location can influence the incidence of various infectious and noninfectious diseases. It has also been implied that variations in weather conditions… read more
    … Epstein PR, Gubler D, Maynard N, McMichael AJ, Patz JA, Sack RB, Shope R. Climate change and human health. Science …
  • A Comparison of Locally Developed Influenza-like Syndrome Definitions Using Electronic Emergency Department Data in Boston and New York City

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    To compare locally-developed influenza-like syndrome definitions (derived from emergency department (ED) chief complaints) when applied to data from two ISDS DiSTRIBuTE Project participants: Boston and New York City (NYC) [1].
    … jurisdictions. The primary limitations of the study were lack of geographic, demographic and analytic diversity among …
  • The New Real Time Surveillance System within the French Forces in French Guiana

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    The development of a real time surveillance system for Forces on duty areas is one of the 5 initiatives of the November 2002 Prague’s NATO meeting. The French Military Health Service has decided to implement a military demonstrator within Forces in… read more
    … produced for the military commandors. A periodical feed-back is sent to all the stakeholders. RESULTS The new system …
  • Evaluation within the Users of a Syndromic Surveillance System in French Guiana

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    The syndromic surveillance system “2SE FAG” has been installed within the French Armed Forces in French Guiana (3000 people) in October 2004 [1-2]. During the conception and the deployment of such a system, ergonomic issues were highlighted and… read more
    … and its different functions (recording, declaration, feed-back, mailing), the software (recording and analysis), the …
  • Efficient Large-Scale Network-Based Simulation of Disease Outbreaks

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    The effectiveness of public health interventions during a disease outbreak depends on rapid, accurate characterization of the initial outbreak and spread of the pathogen. Computer-based simulation using mathematical models… read more
    … The model has been used to simulate a smallpox at- tack affecting two locations in a model of Portland, Oregon …
  • Enhancing Event Communication in Disease Surveillance: ECC 2.0

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    Regional disease surveillance systems allow users the ability to view large amounts of population health information and examine automated alerts that suggest increased disease activity. These systems require users to view and… read more
    … share similar meta-information. Another issue was the lack of automatic notification for new events/comments. …
  • Evaluating Outbreak-Detection Methods Using Simulations: Volume Under the Time-ROC Surface

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    There are many proposed methods of identifying outbreaks of disease in surveillance data. However, there is little agreement about appropriate ways to choose amongst them. One common basis for comparison is simulating outbreaks and adding the simu… read more
    … curve resulted in much bigger values as a result of its lack of a timeliness component. CONCLUSIONS Any of the …
  • Surveillance of West Nile Virus Activity Using Biosense Laboratory Test Order Data

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    West Nile Virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne virus that can cause meningitis and encephalitis. Since its discovery in New York City during an encephalitis outbreak in 1999, WNV has become endemic in North America. In the United States, 16,000 human WNV… read more
    … specimen, not necessarily one unique patient, due to lack of patient linkage capability in our dataset. A …