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  • Enhanced Animal Surveillance for Super Bowl XLIX in Maricopa County, Arizona, 2015

    Content Type: Case Study

    From December 2014 to February 2015, Maricopa County, Arizona was the host site for several high profile events, including Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, and Fiesta Bowl. Public health officials were allocated with implementing numerous enhanced surveillance… read more
    … enacted before, during and after the Super Bowl through email updates, teleconferences and daily phone calls. Ayala … of Public Health COUNTRY: Arizona, United States Email: aurimarayala@mail.maricopa.gov; … enacted before, during and after the Super Bowl through email updates, teleconferences and daily phone calls. …
  • Dengue hemorrhagic fever One Health Surveillance approach effectiveness in Saudi Arabia

    Content Type: Case Study

    Dengue hemorraghic fever (DHF) is affecting more than 50 million people globally and still remains a persistent public health challenge in Saudi Arabia [1]. Althougth there has been available financial resource, limitations and deficiencies in… read more
    … Jeddah Minicipality, Saudi Arabia COUNTRY: Saudi Arabia Email: tambo0711@gmail.com WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU WORK IN? ___x Human health …
  • Better, Stronger, Faster: Making the Case for Adding Data Fields to Syndromic Surveillance, NJ 2015

    Content Type: Case Study

    NJDOH created a custom classification in EpiCenter to detect synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits using chief complaint data. DOH staff included the keywords black magic, black mamba, cloud 9, cloud 10,incense, k2, legal high, pot potpourri,… read more
    … in EpiCenter to detect synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits using chief complaint data. DOH staff included the … classification for NJ synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits before NJPIES' inquiry. NJDOH staff successfully … in EpiCenter to detect synthetic cannabinoid-related ED visits using chief complaint data. DOH staff included the …
  • Promoting the One Health Approach to prevent wildlife-borne zoonotic diseases in Bolivia – Yellow fever outbreak case study

    Content Type: Case Study

    Immediate detection and response to zoonotic disease outbreaks in animals are valuable strategies to prevent infections in humans. Detection and early warning of wildlife-borne pathogens are often limited by the lack of sensitized observers,… read more
    … Ecology – Major University of San Andres COUNTRY: Bolivia Email: ealandia.vet@gmail.com WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU WORK IN? ___ Human health …
  • Georgia's Choice: Moving One Health Forward

    Content Type: Case Study

    Anthrax is endemic and enzootic in Georgia with cases being registered since 1881 with over 2000 foci identified. Since 2005, 439 laboratory confirmed and 211 probable human cases and 190 laboratory confirmed animal cases have been registered. A… read more
    … of the Ministry of Agriculture (LMA) COUNTRY: Georgia Email: irinekal7@yahoo.com, tsira.napetvaridze@gmail.com, makakokhreidze@yahoo.com WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU …
  • A Multidisciplinary One Health Approach to Mosquito Management

    Content Type: Case Study

    Large mosquito outbreaks mysteriously began to recur annually in Western Kentucky beginning in 2011. With up to 30 bites/minute in urban areas, these outbreaks warranted Governor-declared public health emergencies requiring expensive ($2 million… read more
    … Dept. Entomology, University of Kentucky COUNTRY: USA Email: gcbrown147@gmail.com WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU WORK IN? ___x Human health …
  • One Health Concept: Building educational and translation research capacity of graduate and post-graduate students in India

    Content Type: Case Study

    Food safety is a global issue with diverse challenges along various critical points in the food production chain. In India, food safety programs including establishment of surveillance programs and quantitative approaches through integration of… read more
    … C T ORGANIZATION: University of Hyderabad COUNTRY: India Email: ctanitha@gmail.com , actmd@uohyd.ernet.in WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU WORK …
  • Potential elimination of rabies from Pemba Island, Tanzania

    Content Type: Case Study

    A mobile phone-based surveillance system to support the rabies control program is currently in use across southern Tanzania and was implemented in Pemba since 2011. The system allows for near real-time reporting of information on: patients with… read more
    … ORGANIZATION: Ifakara Health Institute COUNTRY: Tanzania Email: kennedylushasi@ymail.com WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU WORK IN? _x__ Human health …