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Role of Influenza in ED Visits and Hospitalizations of Adults Over 65 Years in France
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While the link between excess winter mortality and winter respiratory diseases in the elderly is well described, the impact of the epidemic of influenza in the elderly is mainly assessed in France through specific surveillance in the general… read more -
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 -
SAVSNET: Collating Veterinary Electronic Health Records for Research and Surveillance
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Statutory veterinary disease surveillance generally focuses on food animals with only minimal resources committed to companion animals. However, the close contact between owners and pets suggests that disease surveillance in these species could… read more -
Secondary Data Analysis of HIV/AIDS Control Programme Data, Enugu State, (2010-2013)
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As of 2012, 3,400 000 million people (all ages) are living with HIV in Nigeria. The estimated new HIV infections is 260,000 and estimated AIDS death is 240,000.The reported number of adults on ART(Anti-retroviral treatment) was 459,465 and the ART… read more -
Sensitivity and Specificity of the Fever Syndromes in BioSense and ESSENCE
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Syndromic surveillance refers to the monitoring of disease related events, sets of clinical features (i.e. syndromes), or other indicators in a population. Tennessee obtains emergency department data for syndromic surveillance in standardized HL7… read more -
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