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Sharing Situational Awareness of the 2014-2015 Highly-Pathogenic Avian Influenza Outbreak Across Government
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NBIC integrates, analyzes, and shares national biosurveillance information provided from capabilities distributed across public and private sectors. The integration of information enables early warning and shared situational awareness of nationally… read more -
Situational Awareness for Unfolding Gastrointestinal Outbreaks Using Historical Data
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The CDC defines a foodborne outbreak as two or more people getting the same illness from the same contaminated food or drink. These illnesses are often characterized as gastroenteritis until the causative agent is identified (bacterial or viral).… read more -
Mantle: An Open Source Platform for One Health Biosurveillance and Research
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The One Health approach suggests that humans, animals, and the environment are closely tied together. Human interaction with wildlife and the environment contributes to increased risk for human, plant, and animal infectious disease outbreaks. Since… read more -
Methods to Measure Socio-Economic Inequalities in Health for Indian Adolescents
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Health inequalities are major global public health problem and varies within and between countries. LMICs particularly India, are undergoing a phase of rapid economic development leading to an increase in informal settlements or urban slums. These… read more -
Military and Civilian Disease Outbreaks: A Comparative Analysis
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Using influenza like illness (ILI) data from the repository held by AFHSC, and publically available malaria data we characterized similarities and differences between military and civilian outbreaks. Pete Riley et al. utilized a similar ILI dataset… read more -
Exploring Usability of School Closure Data for Influenza-Like Illness Surveillance
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School children are the primary introducers and significant transmission sources of influenza virus among their families and surrounding communities [1,2]. Therefore, schools play an important role in amplifying influenza transmission in communities… read more -
Extending an Uncertainty Taxonomy for Suspected Pneumonia Case Review
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Natural language processing algorithms that accurately screen clinical documents for suspected pneumonia must extract and reason about whether these mentions provide evidence that supports, refutes, or represents uncertainty. Our efforts extend… read more -
Epidemics of the “common cold” and the dynamics of severe asthma exacerbation
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Common colds are one of the principal causes of severe exacerbations in asthmatic people, reflected in epidemic-like waves of asthma hospitalizations. Most studies do not estimate the effect of infectious causes of exacerbations, and cannot account… read more