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Control and Cost-benefit Analysis of Fast Spreading Diseases: The case of Ebola
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Mitigating the spread of infectious disease is of great importance for policy makers. Taking the recent outbreak of Ebola as an example, it was difficult for policy makers to identify the best course of action based on the cost-effectiveness of what… read more -
Syndromic surveillance and UEFA Euro 2016 in France – Health impact assessment
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France hosted 2016 UEFA European Football Championship between June 10 and July 10. In the particular context of several terrorist attacks occurring in France in 2015 [1], the French national public health agency « Santé publique France » (formerly… read more -
Towards Tracking Opium Related Discussions in Social Media
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In recent years, the use of social media has increased at an unprecedented rate. For example, the popular social media platform Reddit (http://www.reddit.com) had 83 billion page views from over 88,000 active sub-communities (subreddits) in 2015.… read more -
Correlation of school absenteeism and laboratory results for Flu A in Alberta, Canada
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Rates of student absenteeism in schools have been mainly used to detect outbreaks in schools and prompt public health action to stop local transmission. A report by Kim Mogto et al. stated that aggregated counts of school absenteeism (SAi… read more -
Use of Near-Real–Time Data to Inform Underage Drinking Surveillance in Nebraska
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Underage drinking is a significant public health problem in the United States as well as in Nebraska1-2. Alcohol consumption among underage youth accounts for approximately 5,000 deaths each year in the United States, including motor vehicle crash… read more -
Building the Road to a Regional Zoonoses Strategy: a Survey of Zoonoses Programs in the Americas
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Zoonoses account for over 70% of emerging infectious diseases in humans. In recent years, global public health security has been threatened by zoonotic disease emergence as exemplified by outbreaks of H5N1 and H1N1 influenza, SARS, and most recently… read more -
Seroprevalence of zoonotic diseases among farm animals in Kvemo Kartli (Georgia)
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Zoonotic diseases are an important cause of human morbidity and mortality; around 75% of recently emerging human infectious diseases are zoonoses. Herein we report the first seroprevalence study to include a range of emerging or re-emerging zoonotic… read more -
Soda Pop: A Time-Series Clustering, Alarming and Disease Forecasting Application
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The Biosurveillance Ecosystem (BSVE) is a biological and chemical threat surveillance system sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). BSVE is intended to be user-friendly, multi-agency, cooperative, modular and threat agnostic… read more