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Preparing for the Pandemic: A Review of State Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Plans and Recommendations for Influenza Surveillance During Interpandemic Periods and Pandemic Alerts
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In response to increasing reports of avian influenza being identified throughout the eastern hemisphere, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have published pandemic influenza preparedness… read more -
Preparing for the Pandemic: A Review of State Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Plans Reveals Increased Reliance on Advanced Surveillance; Recommendations for Pandemic Influenza Surveillance
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In response to increasing reports of avian influenza being identified throughout the eastern hemisphere, the U.S. Homeland Security Council, the Infectious Disease Society of America, and others have called for expansion of… read more -
Privacy Protection versus Cluster Detection in Spatial Epidemiology
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With the widespread deployment of near real time population health monitoring, there is increasing focus on spatial cluster detection for identifying disease outbreaks. These spatial epidemiologic methods rely on knowledge of patient location to… read more -
Processes for Data Gathering, Assessment and Disease Event Tracking
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Protecting U.S. animal populations requires constant monitoring of disease events and conditions which might lead to disease emergence, both domestically and globally. Since 1999, the Center for Emerging issues (CEI has actively… read more -
Project Management and Design for Syndromic Surveillance Software
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Management of software development projects involves a collection of well understood issues which are not often found in other project management areas. Identifying and managing these issues primarily requires that the manager is aware of the… read more -
Proposal of a Framework for Evaluating Military Surveillance Systems for Early Detection of Outbreaks on Duty Areas
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Evaluation is a major topic in order to enhance syndromic surveillance. In May 2004, a CDC working group developed a framework for evaluating public health surveillance systems for early detection of outbreaks. This framework has… read more -
Prospective Outbreak Detection in Pets as a Sentinel Indicator for Outbreaks in Humans
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Sixty-one percent of known disease-causing agents that infect humans can also infect animals [1]. While humans are the primary reservoir for only 3% of zoonoses, detection of zoonotic disease outbreaks remains mostly dependant on the identification… read more -
Rabies Vaccination Coverage and Antibody Profile of Owned Dogs in Abuja, Nigeria
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Rabies is a zoonotic disease of high public health importance. There have been documented reports of rabies in vaccinated dogs. Rabies is enzootic in domestic dogs in Nigeria. Hence, annual vaccination campaigns of dogs are advocated with the aim of… read more