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A Scoping Review of Enterovirus D-68
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EV-D68 is a non-polio enterovirus, primarily resulting in respiratory illness, with clinical symptoms ranging from mild to severe. Infection has also been associated with severe neurological conditions like acute flaccid myelitis (AFM). EV-D68 was… read more -
Hepatitis A surveillance using commercial laboratory data
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Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infections have persisted in the United States despite the availability of an effective vaccine. Recent outbreaks of HAV infections among unvaccinated adults attributed to consumption of HAV-contaminated food, or person-to-… read more -
Prevalence of CCHF Virus in Ticks and People and Public Awareness in Zhambyl Region, Kazakhstan
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Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) virus is a tick-borne pathogen that causes severe disease in people, with a distribution that extends from central Asia to southern Africa. In addition to tick bites, contact with bodily fluids from viremic… read more -
How Missing Discharge Diagnosis Data in Syndromic Surveillance Leads to Coverage Gaps
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Indiana utilizes the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) to collect and analyze data from participating hospital emergency departments. This real-time collection of health related data is… read more -
Advancing PH Emergency Preparedness Informatics to Support Emergency Responses
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The purpose of this project is to demonstrate progress in developing a scientific and practical approach for public health (PH) emergency preparedness and response informatics (EPRI) that supports the National Health Security Strategy and Global… read more -
A pilot project to identify individuals who died from suicide and visited an ED before death
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In 2015, suicide was the 8th leading cause of death in Salt Lake County, Utah, and has recently been identified as a priority public health issue. For suicide, suicide ideation and suicide attempts surveillance, Salt Lake County Health Department… read more -
Improving Syndromic Data Quality through Implementation of Error Capture Module
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Oregon Public Health Division (OPHD), in collaboration with The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, implemented Oregon ESSENCE in 2011. ESSENCE is an automated, electronic syndromic surveillance system that captures emergency… read more -
How do we present messy syndromic surveillance data to public health’s partners?
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With increasing awareness of SyS systems, there has been a concurrent increase in demand for data from these systems â both from researchers and from the media. The opioid epidemic occurring in the United States has forced the SyS community to… read more