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A Systematic Evaluation of Data Streams for Global Disease Surveillance
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Living in a closely connected and highly mobile world presents many new mechanisms for rapid disease spread and in recent years, global disease surveillance has become a high priority. In addition, much like the contribution of non-traditional… read more -
Modeling Baseline Shifts in Multivariate Disease Outbreak Detection
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Population surges or large events may cause shift of data collected by biosurveillance systems [1]. For example, the Cherry Blossom Festival brings hundreds of thousands of people to DC every year, which results in simultaneous elevations in… read more -
MoH+: A Global, Integrated, and Automated View of Official Outbreak Reporting
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Previous studies have documented significant lags in official reporting of outbreaks compared to unofficial reporting (1,2). MoH+ provides an additional tool to analyze this issue, with the unique advantage of actively gathering a wide range of… read more -
Monitoring the Impact of Heat Waves with Emergency Service Utilization Data in Los Angeles County
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Los Angeles County’s (LAC) early event detection system captures over 60% of total ED visits, as well as 800 to 1,000 emergency dispatch calls from Los Angeles City Fire (LACF) daily. Both ED visits and EDC calls are classified into syndrome… read more -
Multi-dimensional Problems in Health Settings: A Review of Approaches to Decision Making
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There appears to be a growing number of prioritization exercises, for example of diseases, in health related settings (1). The decision process around these exercises involves comparing competing alternatives, i.e. diseases, and irreducible… read more -
The Distribution of Infectious Related Symptoms in an Internet-based Syndromic Surveillance System in Rural China
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Syndromic surveillance system, which collects non-specific syndromes in the early stages of disease development, has great advantages in promoting early detection of epidemics and reducing the burden of disease confirmation. It is especially… read more -
The Epidemiologic Vocabulary of the West and the Former Soviet Union: Different Sides of the Same Science
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As part of the US Department of Defense strategy to counter biological threats, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Cooperative Biological Engagement Program is enhancing the capabilities of countries in the former Soviet Union (FSU) to detect,… read more -
The Natural Reservoirs of Salmonella Enteritidis in Populations of Wild Birds
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Salmonella Enteritidis is dangerous for human due the reason of toxicoinfaction. These pathogen demonstrate high virulence for small children and people with chronic pathologies and can causes people die. The main source of infection to humans is… read more
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