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Precarious Data: Crack, Opioids, and Visualizing a Drug Abuse Epidemic
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In late 2015, two economists studying health-related data inadvertently discovered an alarming trend: death rates for middle-aged, white Americans were dramatically increasing from drug overdoses (Kolata, 2015), particularly opioids (CDC, 2015). The… read morePrecision public health through clinic-based syndromic surveillance in communities
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In December 2009, TaiwanâÂÂs CDC stopped its sentinel physician surveillance system. Currently, infectious disease surveillance systems in Taiwan rely on not only the national notifiable disease surveillance system but also real-time outbreak and… read morePrevalence of Hepatitis C Testing Among Non-Institutionalized Individuals in the US, NHIS 2013-2017
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the most common blood-borne disease in the US and the leading cause of liver-related morbidity and mortality. Approximately 3.5 million individuals in the US were estimated to have been living with hepatitis C in… read moreProgress in the Development of the Standardized Public Health Emergency Preparedness Terminology
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security National Incident Management System (NIMS) establishes a common framework and common terminology that allows diverse incident management and support organizations to work together across a wide variety of… read moreProgress towards Companion Animal Zoonotic Disease Surveillance in the U.S. Army
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Dogs, cats and other companion animals have played an integral role in many aspects of human life. Human and companion animal (CAs) interactions have a wide range of benefits to human health [1-3]. The threat of zoonotic transmission between CAs and… read morePulmonary Function should be the Surveillance Tool in Obese Children to Prevent Asthma
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The mediating pathways in the obesity-asthma link are largely unknown. We aimed to investigate the mediating pathways and to search for the most prominent pathological mechanism between central obesity and childhood asthma. Objective:… read moreReal-time monitoring of a mass K2-related overdose outbreak â Connecticut, 2018
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On August 15, 2018, the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) became aware of a cluster of suspected overdoses in an urban park related to the synthetic cannabinoid K2. Abuse of K2 has been associated with serious adverse effects and… read moreRetrospective Surveillance of Perinatal Hepatitis C Virus Exposure â Tennessee, 2013-2017
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections are increasing nationwide and are of particular concern in Tennessee, especially among individuals of reproductive age.1,2 Maternal HCV status reported on the birth certificate reveals that the rate of HCV among… read more