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A provincial Acute Febrile Illness Surveillance Network (GAFINet), South Korea
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In May 2015, the MERS-CoV outbreaks in South Korea was sparkled from a hospital of Gyeonggi-do province. In response to this outbreak, the provincial government and infectious disease control center (GIDCC) initiated an emergency department (ED)… read more -
Molecular Characterization of Salmonella spp. from Cattle and Chicken Farms in Uganda
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major concern in developing countries. Uganda is one of many developing countries that are beginning to implement a surveillance program countrywide to monitor AMR within the animal, environmental, and human… read more -
Why You Should Participate in HHS (Health and Human Services) Regional Epi Groups
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One of the early successes for the National Syndromic Surveillance Program's (NSSP's) BioSense Platform was community agreement on what should make up national and regional picture of the data. For NSSP to meet program objectives, National level… read more -
The Myths and Truths About Comparing Syndromic Data Across Sites
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One of the more recent successes of NSSP has been the introduction of more robust data quality monitoring and reporting. However, despite the increased insight into data quality, there are still concerns about data sharing and comparisons across… read more -
Syndromic Surveillance on the Mental Health Impact of Political Rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia
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As part of a wide-spread community discussion on the presence of monuments to Confederate Civil War figures, the Charlottesville city council voted to remove a statue of General Robert E. Lee. Multiple rallies were then held to protest the statueâ… read more -
Sero-prevalence of bovine and human brucellosis on selected farms in South-western Uganda
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Brucellosis is among the zoonotic diseases that continue to afflict man and animals in Uganda. The increase in the number of disease outbreaks in animals from 1990 to 2013 and the number of human patients diagnosed with brucellosis in private… read more -
Selection of Syndromes and Algorithms for Monitoring Bovine Laboratory Test Data
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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is collaborating with epidemiologists of the US Dept. of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Center for Epidemiology and Animal Health (CEAH) to increase animal… read more -
Understanding Emergency Department Utilization Patterns in Illinois
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Syndromic surveillance has been widely implemented for the collection of Emergency Department (ED) data. EDs may be the only option for seeking care in underserved areas, but they do not represent population-based measures. This analysis provides… read more