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North Dakota Electronic Animal Health Surveillance System
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The North Dakota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (NDVDL) manages animal disease laboratory tests, results and diagnostic services using the software VetStar Animal Disease Diagnostic System (VADDS) (Advanced Technology Corporation, Ramsey, NJ). The… read more -
North Texas School Health Surveillance: First-Year Progress and Next Steps
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Recognizing the threat of pandemic influenza and new or emerging disease such as SARS, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recommended that schools work in partnership with their local health departments “to develop a surveillance… read more -
Novel Surveillance Tool Enables Public Health Use of Poison Control Calls
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Regional poison control centers (RPC) receive calls about a variety of poisoning exposures. Callers’ symptoms may not otherwise enter traditional public health (PH) surveillance systems. I report a 16-week pilot study of a new tool to enable the RPC… read more -
One Medicine- One Health: Implementing the Vision in Real-World Public Health
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In the past year, three major health care organizations â the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Medical Association and the Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine â have officially endorsed the concept of âOne Healthâ… read more -
Online Dissemination of National Influenza Surveillance Data
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Infectious disease surveillance is important for disease control as well as to inform prevention and treatment [1]. While influenza surveillance data coverage and quality has improved significantly in recent years due to resource investments and… read more -
Pregnant women with suspected Zika virus infection: A claims data analysis
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Zika virus disease and Zika virus congenital infection are nationally notifiable conditions that became prominent recently as a growing number of travel-associated infections have been identified in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control… read more -
Online Temporal Clustering for Outbreak Detection
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We hypothesize that epidemics around their onset tend to affect primarily a well-defined subgroup of the overall population that is for some reason particularly susceptible. While the vulnerable cohort is often well described for… read more -
Ontario's Telehealth: A Novel Snydromic Surveillance System
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The Ontario Telehealth Telephone Helpline (henceforth referred to as “Telehealth”) was implemented in Ontario in 2001. It is administered by Clinidata, a private contractor hired by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care,… read more