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Does Antimicrobial Prescription Data Improve Influenza Surveillance in VA?
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Antimicrobial prescriptions are a new data source available to the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) biosurveillance program. Little is known about whether antiviral or antibacterial prescription data correlates with influenza ICD-9-CM coded… read more -
Early Detection of Influenza Activity Using Syndromic Surveillance in Missouri
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Syndromic surveillance is used routinely to detect outbreaks of disease earlier than traditional methods due to its ability to automatically acquire data in near real-time. Missouri has used emergency department (ED) visits to monitor and track… read more -
Editorial: 2012 ISDS Conference Proceedings
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The International Society for Disease Surveillance held its eleventh annual conference in San Diego on December 4th and 5th, 2012, under the theme Expanding Collaborations to Chart a New Course in Public Health Surveillance. During these two days,… read more -
Enhanced Influenza Surveillance using Telephone Triage Data in the VA ESSENCE Biosurveillance System
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Telephone triage is a relatively new data source available to biosurveillance systems.1-2Because early detection and warning is a high priority, many biosurveillance systems have begun to collect and analyze data from non-traditional sources [… read more -
Enhanced Surveillance during the Democratic National Convention, Charlotte, NC
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North Carolina hosted the 2012 Democratic National Convention, September 3-6, 2012. The NC Epidemiology and Surveillance Team was created to facilitate enhanced surveillance for injuries and illnesses, early detection of outbreaks during the DNC,… read more -
Enhancing Surveillance for Arboviral Infections in the Arizona Border Region
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West Nile Virus (WNV) and dengue virus (DENV) are both arboviruses which are transmitted to humans by an infected mosquito bite during blood-meal feeding. The clinical presentations of nonneuroinvasive WNV and dengue fever are similar, and symptoms… read more -
Establishment of a One Health Surveillance Initiative in the CA/Baja CA Border Region
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The CA/BC border region encompasses a wide range of ecosystems, topography, dense urban areas, and agricultural developments that coexist in a limited geographic area and create numerous humananimal-environmental interfaces. The region is recognized… read more -
Estimation of Influenza Incidence by Age in the 2011/12 Seasons in Japan using SASSy
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So as to develop more effective countermeasures against influenza, timely and precise information about influenza activity at schools, kindergartens, and nursery schools may be helpful. At the Infectious Diseases Surveillance Center of the National… read more