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Improving Cattle Market Syndromic Surveillance Through Electronic Data Capture
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An active syndromic surveillance system was designed to collect cattle health information from a sample of Texas cattle market sales. Texas Animal Health Commission livestock inspectors record the total number of animals observed along with the… read more -
Improving Detection of Call Clusters through Surveillance of Poison Center Data
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses the National Poison Data System (NPDS) to conduct surveillance of calls to United States PCs. PCs provide triage and treatment advice for hazardous exposures through a free national hotline.… read more -
In Denial: Symptom Negation in New York City Emergency Department Chief Complaints
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In July 2016, 77% of ED data was transmitted daily via Health Level 7 (HL7) messages, compared to only 27% in July 2015 (Figure). During this same period, chief complaint (CC) word count has increased from an average of 3.8 words to 6.0 words, with… read more -
Infant fever trends following the launch of the meningococcal B vaccine in the UK
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From 1 September 2015, babies in the United Kingdom (UK) born on/after 1 July 2015 became eligible to receive the MenB vaccine, given at 2 and 4 months of age, with a booster at 12 months. Early trials found a high prevalence of fever (over 38°… read more -
Infectious Disease Reporting and Outbreak Management Improvement Project
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Specific communicable diseases have to be reported by law within a specific time period. In Ohio, prior to 2001, most of these disease reports were on paper reports that were reported from providers to local health departments. In turn, the… read more -
Influenza study of backyard animals in Georgia
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Aquatic birds are the main reservoirs of influenza viruses, however, pigs represent an essential host in virus ecology as they are susceptible to both avian and human influenza viruses. Circulating zoonotic influenza (A/H7N9, A/H5N1, and A/H3N2v)… read more -
Influenza-Associated Pediatric Deaths in the United States, 2010–2015
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Community influenza infection rates are highest among children. In children, influenza can cause severe illness and complications including, respiratory failure and death. Annual influenza vaccination is recommended for all persons aged ≥ 6 months.… read more -
Integrated spatiotemporal surveillance system: Data, Analysis and Visualization
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Most surveillance methods in the literature focus on temporal aberration detections with data aggregated to certain geographical boundaries. SaTScan has been widely used for spatiotemporal aberration detection due to its user friendly software… read more