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Conducting operational research during outbreaks to improve preparedness and response
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Each significant outbreak and epidemic raises questions that must be answered in order to better inform future preparedness and response efforts, such as:- What are the systems and resources needed to characterize an outbreak? …
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Developing Semantically Interoperable PH Emergency Preparedness Data Exchange
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Effective prevention, detection, and rapid response to PH emergencies rely on sufficient and timely delivered information. PH EOC data flows are based on critical information requirements, addressing needs of EOC staff for timely delivered… read more -
Using a One Health Aapproach to Build an Integrated Surveillance Data System
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Environmental Public Health Zoonotic Disease surveillance includes veternary, environmental, and vector data. Surveillance systems within each sector may appear disparate from each other, although they are actually complimentaly and closely allied.… read more -
Factors associated with hospitalization due to streptococcal infection in Houston, Texas 2015-2016
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Different studies have shown that Streptococcal infections in adults are more common among older age, blacks, and underlying chronic medical conditions like diabetes, cardiovascular and kidney diseases. In specific, other studies have demonstrated… read more -
Assessing scarlet fever re-emergence from notifiable disease surveillance in Hong Kong
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Scarlet fever is a notifiable disease in Hong Kong for over 40 years. There was relatively low activity of scarlet fever until an outbreak in mid-2011 which resulted in two deaths and more than 1,500 cases. Scarlet fever incidence remained elevated… read more -
What value can Google search data add to existing syndromic surveillance systems?
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Globally, there have been various studies assessing trends in Google search terms in the context of public health surveillance1. However, there has been a predominant focus on individual health outcomes such as influenza, with limited evidence on… read more -
Analysing Trends of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)and Dengue cases in Hong Kong
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Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) is a severe paralytic neuropathy associated with virus infections such as Zika virus and Chikungunya virus. There were also case reports of dengue fever preceding GBS. With the aim to understand the mechanisms of GBS… read more -
Genotyping of pathogenic leptospira by Multiple Locus Variable-number Tandem Repeat Analysis (MLVA)
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Leptospirosis (ictherohemoglobinuria, Leptospirosis biliousness) is a natural focal and zoonotic infectious disease dangerous for humans and farm animals. It is important to identify specific leptospira strains isolated from rodents or sick and… read more