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Active Fever Surveillance During Malaria Outbreak in Western Jamaica
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Malaria, major leading cause of morbidity and mortality in third world countries has been successfully eliminated from Jamaica since 1965. This, however, is being constantly challenged by lack of sustained vector control… read more -
Active Surveillance of Foodborne Illnesses Using a Novel Syndrome Database
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Poison control centers (PCCs) provide a new source of real-time symptom data that could enhance surveillance systems for foodborne disease outbreaks (FBDOs) through more timely public health department interventions. PCCs provide treatment advice to… read more -
Acute Care Alerting and Integrated Public Health Investigation and Response to Syndromic Surveillance Alerts: Example of a Local Food Borne Outbreak
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To highlight the key role of Emergency Department syn-dromic surveillance in linking acute care and public health, thus enabling collaborative detection, monitoring and management of a local food borne outbreak. -
Adding GIS and Earth Observations to Syndromic Surveillance
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This paper describes an integrated modeling, sensing, and information system for forecasting atmospheric dust episodes and monitoring PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations that aggravate respiratory diseases in the American southwest. -
Advanced Modular Design for Scalable Biosurveillance Systems
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This paper describes a modular approach to surveillance system design, ensuring flexibility, scalability and fault tolerance. -
Advanced Querying Features for Disease Surveillance Systems
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Automated disease surveillance systems that analyze data by syndrome categories have been used to look for outbreaks of disease for about 10 years. Most of these systems notify users of increases in the prevalence of reports in syndrome categories… read more -
Advantages and Limitations of Real Time Surveillance for the French Armed Forces during Operations
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This paper describes the synthesis of benefits and problems that French Armed Forces had to take into account for the implementation of syndromic surveillance within their epidemiological surveillance strategy. -
Age Specific Correlations between Influenza Laboratory Data and Influenza-like Syndrome Definitions in Boston and New York City
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To compare age-group-specific correlation of influenza-like syndrome (ILS) emergency department (ED) visits with influenza laboratory data in Boston and NYC using locally defined ILS definitions.