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Enhanced syndromic surveillance during the 9th Indian Ocean Island Games, 2015
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The 9th IOIG took place in Reunion Island from July 31 to August 9, 2015. This sport event gathered approximatively 1 640 athletes, 2 000 volunteers and several thousand spectators from seven islands:Comoros, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritius, Mayotte… read more -
Ensuring confidentiality and safety of cancer registry data in Kumasi, Ghana
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Cancer registration involves collecting information on patients with cancer. Population-based cancer registries in particular are useful in estimating the disease burden and to inform the institution of prevention and control measures. Collecting… read more -
Epi Archive: automated data collection of notifiable disease data
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Most countries do not report national notifiable disease data in a machine-readable format. Data are often in the form of a file that contains text, tables and graphs summarizing weekly or monthly disease counts. This presents a problem when… read more -
EpiCore: Crowdsourcing Health Professionals to Verify Disease Outbreaks
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EpiCore draws on the knowledge of a global community of human, animal, and environmental health professionals to verify information on disease outbreaks in their geographic regions. By using innovative surveillance techniques and crowdsourcing these… read more -
Rapidly Adapting Flexible Surveillance Systems for Emergent Event Response
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Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) epidemiologists have responded to multiple emergent outbreaks with diverse surveillance needs. During the 2009 H1N1 influenza response, it was necessary to electronically integrate multiple reporting sources… read more -
Real-time surveillance and response system for Ebola and other emerging infections
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Improving surveillance and response is a critical component of the Global Health Security Agenda. While it is impossible to predict where the next Ebola outbreak will occur, it is very likely that another outbreak will occur in the DRC. Of the 20… read more -
Identifying and Communicating the Importance of the Variable Nature of SyS Data
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As syndromic surveillance systems continue to grow, new opportunities have arisen to utilize the data in new or alternative ways for which the system was not initially designed. For example, in many jurisdictions syndromic surveillance has recently… read more -
Immune response and distribution of antigen in chickens after infection LPAIV (H4N6)
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Influenza is a serious problem for the health of people, animals and birds. Therefore, comprehensive study of influenza virus, its natural reservoir, pathogenesis and immune response will provide further opportunity to ensure protection for animals… read more