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Alabama Department of Public Health–Syndromic Surveillance Monitoring and Improving Data Quality
Content Type: Success Stories
Data latency limited the Alabama Department of Public Health’s (ADPH) ability torecognize and respond quickly to public health threats. Despite ADPH’s request that 95% of syndromic surveillance (SyS) data be submitted to ESSENCE* within 24… read moreSoda Pop: A Time-Series Clustering, Alarming and Disease Forecasting Application
Content Type: Abstract
The Biosurveillance Ecosystem (BSVE) is a biological and chemical threat surveillance system sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). BSVE is intended to be user-friendly, multi-agency, cooperative, modular and threat agnostic… read moreWest Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Syndromic Surveillance for Mass Gatherings
Content Type: Success Stories
Mass gatherings—defined as events attended by a sufficient number of people to strain the planning and response resources of the host state—pose unique surveillance challenges. Attendees can be at greater (or high) risk for injuries due to… read moreLouisiana Takes Action Against Drug Abuse by Sharing Syndromic Data
Content Type: Success Stories
Louisiana, like other states, grapples with widespread drug abuse. CDC’s DrugOverdose Death Data show Louisiana had a statistically significant 14.7% increase in its drug overdose death rate from 2015–2016. As early as 2013, the Louisiana Office of… read moreFlorida Department of Health Syndromic Surveillance Identifies Unreported Cases of Zika Virus Disease, 2016–2017
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Zika virus disease became a significant public health problem in Brazil in 2015 and quickly spread to other South American and Central American countries. While not an overly severe illness for many, Zika virus disease has been shown to increase the… read moreLyme Disease - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Content Type: Syndrome
Uploaded on behalf of Grace Marx, MD, MPH: Bacterial Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, CDC. This syndrome definition was created to explore Lyme disease through Syndromic data as an efficient approach to monitor the… read moreTick Bites - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Content Type: Syndrome
Uploaded on behalf of Grace Marx, MD, MPH: Bacterial Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, CDC. This syndrome definition was created to explore tick through Syndromic data as an efficient approach to monitor the tick-borne… read moreESSENCE Q & A v4.0
Content Type: Webinar
Held on March 14, 2019. During this 90-minute session, Aaron Kite-Powell, M.S., from CDC and Wayne Loschen, M.S., from JHU-APL provided updates on the NSSP ESSENCE platform and answered the community's questions… read more