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One Health e-Surveillance for Early Detection of Gastrointestinal Disease Outbreaks
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In human and animal health, conventional approaches to preventing and controlling GI have not reduced the overall disease burden. In order to understand and mitigate shared GI aetiologies between humans and animals it is necessary to develop One… read more -
One Health in Action: Lyme Disease
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Lyme disease is an emerging disease in Michigan and is the most commonly reported vector-borne illness. The bacterium causing Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, is transmitted to humans or dogs through the bite of an infected tick. In the spring of… read more -
Openness, Transparency and Equity in Public Health Surveillance Data Sharing
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The outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003, influenza A (H1N1) in 2009 and Ebola in 2014 have shown increasingly that infectious diseases can spread globally in a short timeframe, affecting both high- and low-income countries… read more -
2014 International Society for Disease Surveillance Conference Translating Research and Surveillance into Action
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The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) will hold its thirteenth annual conference in Philadelphia on December 10th and 11th, 2014. The society’s mission is to improve population health by advancing the science and practice… read more -
A Syndrome Definition Validation Approach for Ebola Virus Disease
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The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa is one of the largest Ebola outbreaks in history. Early detection is critical for rapid initiation of treatment, infection control and emergency response plans. To facilitate clinicians’ ability to detect Ebola… read more -
A Syndromic Surveillance Service Supporting Environmental Public Health Incidents
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Public Health England has developed a suite of syndromic surveillance systems, collecting data from a number of health care sources, and linking to public health action to try and improve the public health benefit of the surveillance.1 We aim to… read more -
A Term-based Approach to Asyndromic Determination of Significant Case Clusters
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Biosurveillance systems commonly depend on free-text chief complaints (CC)s for timely situational awareness. However, diagnosis codes may not be available soon enough and may have uncertain value because they are assigned for billing purposes… read more -
Adjustment for Baseline Level of Dengue Cases Due to Increased Testing in Singapore
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Dengue is endemic in Singapore, with epidemics of increasing magnitude occurring on a six-year cycle in 1986/7, 1992, 1998, 2004/5, 2007 and 2013. The incidence per 100,000 population ranged from 87.2 to 105.6 in 2009-20121 , and surged to 410.6 in… read more