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Active Surveillance in the investigation and analysis of RVFin WesternandCentralUganda
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Although in E. Africa RVF was initially detected and known to be a disease endermic in Kenya, the people in Uganda were still hesitating wether the disease is already in existence. Following its first detection in 2016 in Humans there was need to… read more -
Acute Hepatitis A Infection and Vaccination in the Veterans Health Administration
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Since hepatitis A vaccination became widely recommended in the US in the mid-1990's, rates of acute hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection have steadily declined, however, since 2011, incidence of new cases of HAV appears to be increasing1, often linked… read more -
Acute Hepatitis A Infections among Veterans in Outbreak States, 2016-2018
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Although cases of acute HAV have declined in recent years, elevated numbers of HAV infections began to be reported by California and Michigan in the fall of 2016.1,2 Since this time, associated outbreaks have been reported in 9 additional states (… read more -
Adolescent prescription opioid misuse, illicit opioid use and overdose
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The number of overdose deaths involving illicit opioids such as heroin and illicitly-manufactured fentanyl (IMF) is now higher than deaths involving prescription opioids. Adolescents misusing prescription opioids are more likely to use heroin.… read more -
An Algorithm for Early Outbreak Detection in Multiple Data Streams
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Current biosurveillance systems run multiple univariate statistical process control (SPC) charts to detect increases in multiple data streams. The method of using multiple univariate SPC charts is easy to implement and easy to interpret. By… read more -
An Assessment of Birth Registration System and Factors Affecting in India and its States.
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Civil Registration system (CRS) in India has been in vogue for more than 100 years now. The registration of Birth and Deaths Act, 1969 came into force in 1970. Even after 4 decades of the enactment of the act, there are wide inter-state and intra-… read more -
An Assessment of Overdose Surveillance at a Local Public Health Department
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Mirroring public health response to infectious disease outbreaks, many public health departments are taking an outbreak management approach to respond to drug overdose surges 1-3. The Marion County Public Health Department (MCPHD) has developed an… read more -
An Assessment of the EMS Drug Overdose to Death Pathway from 2011 to 2017
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Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States, with an estimated 60,000 deaths in 2016. Nationally, EMS overdose responses with naloxone administration have nearly doubled from 2012 to 2016 from 573.6 to 1004.4… read more