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Enhanced Surveillance Improved Timeliness and Sensitivity at the FIFA 2006 World Cup in Germany
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Security threats and the recent emergence of avian influenza in Europe have heightened the profile of and need for a good surveillance strategy during such events. The two main rationales for enhanced infectious disease surveillance at mass events… read more -
Evaluating Pandemic Influenza Surveillance and Response Systems in Developing Countries: Framework and Pilot Application
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A pandemic caused by influenza A/H5N1 or another novel strain could kill millions of people and devastate economies worldwide. Recent computer simulations suggest that an emerging influenza pandemic might be contained in Southeast Asia through rapid… read more -
Evaluation of ILI Data Use to Augment Traditional Influenza Surveillance
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Previous reports from participating facilities in North Dakota illustrated that ILI syndrome data from syndromic surveillance data, which is based on chief complaints logs, had a close correlation to the traditional ILI surveillance and that… read more -
Evaluation within the Users of a Syndromic Surveillance System in French Guiana
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The syndromic surveillance system “2SE FAG” has been installed within the French Armed Forces in French Guiana (3000 people) in October 2004 [1-2]. During the conception and the deployment of such a system, ergonomic issues were highlighted and… read more -
Support Vector Subset Scan for Spatial Outbreak Detection
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Neill’s fast subset scan2 detects significant spatial patterns of disease by efficiently maximizing a log-likelihood ratio statistic over subsets of locations, but may result in patterns that are not spatially compact. The penalized fast subset scan… read more -
Health Impact of the 2006 Heat Wave Based on Syndromic Surveillance in Gironde, France
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In July 2006, an important heat wave occurred in France, and generated alarm of all the public health services. In Gironde, a department in region Aquitaine, the level of "warning and actions" of the Heat Health Watch Warning System, based on an… read more -
Implementation of a New Syndromic Surveillance System in April 2006 in French Guiana
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An outbreak of dengue fever has occured in French Guiana since the end of November 2005 until July 2006. The dengue serotype circulating was DEN-2, responsible of more than 2 000 confirmed cases and 4 deaths. The previous… read more -
Implementation of a Syndromic Surveillance System Using a General Practitioner's House Calls Network
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Recent health events in France, such as the dramatic excess of mortality occurred during the 2003 heat wave showed the need for a better provision of information to health authorities. A new syndromic surveillance system based on the… read more
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