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Civilian-military Collaboration: Department of Defense data in the BioSense Platform
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The DoD provides daily outpatient and emergency room data feeds to the BioSense Platform within NSSP, maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This data includes demographic characteristics and diagnosis codes for health… read more -
Collecting Infectious Disease Data from LARS and Improving Data Quality in Taiwan
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To immediately monitor disease outbreaks, the application of laboratory-based surveillance is more popular in recent years. Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (TCDC) has developed LARS to collect the laboratory-confirmed cases caused by any of 20… read more -
Comparing Emergency Department Gunshot Wound Data with Mass Casualty Shooting Reports
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Shootings with multiple victims are a concern for public safety and public health. The precise impact of such events and the trends associated with them is dependent on which events are counted. Some reports only consider events with multiple deaths… read more -
Comparative Analysis of Methods of Molecular Detection of Avian Influenza Virus
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As part of this surveillance study for Avian Influenza both active and passive surveillance samples were tested using PCR and also utilized to validate the LAMP method. Active surveillance samples include pathological material and tracheal and… read more -
Surveillance of Influenza A/California/H1N1 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
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Ukraine’s ability to respond to the spread of viruses that cause pandemics and reduce economic losses from influenza, can be strengthened only in the presence of a developed surveillance network including the monitoring of virus circulation in… read more -
Surveillance system of severe influenza cases admitted to the regional ICU,2009-2015
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Every year, circulating influenza viruses generate a significant number of deaths. During the 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1), a national non mandatory surveillance system of severe influenza cases admitted to intensive care units(ICU) was set up in… read more -
Sustaining community event-based surveillance in Sierra Leone
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Stemming from the 2014-6 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, community event based surveillance (CEBS) was implemented in Sierra Leone using community health workers to generate alerts for trigger events suggestive of EVD transmission. Through… read more -
Syndromic surveillance of air pollution incidents across international borders
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The impact of poor air quality (AQ) on human health is a global issue, with periods of poor AQ known to occur in multiple locations, across different countries at, or around the same time. The Public Health England (PHE) Emergency Department… read more