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Odisha State’s Malaria Reduction Success – Role of Information for Action
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Presentation identifies the Odisha State in eastern coastal India as a region in the country and world with exceptionally high rates of malaria infection. Odisha, which represents 3% of India’s population was… read more… (R), 094370 29020 (M) E-mail: harapattnaikscb@gmail.com Director, Health Services, Odisha Vice-President, … 2017, compared to 2016 No. of Districts with API>10 have come down to 9 in 2017 from 13 in 2016 Angul, Sambalpur, Deogarh & Sundergarh have come down to less than 10 API Nuapada, Boudh have come down … -
Utilizing the 'Crowd Trial' for Pharmacovigilance: a case report
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Singulair (MONTELUKAST SODIUM) is a Leukotriene receptor antagonist, indicated to prevent asthma attacks in adults and children. It is also used to relieve allergies in adults and children. Singulair was approved by the FDA in February 20, 1998. In… read more… *Limor Bar-Hai E-mail: limor@firstliferesearch.com (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1. FLR … -
Leveraging the 'Wisdom of the Crowd' as a BioSurveillance tool
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With the proliferation of social networks, the web has become a warehouse of patient discussions and reports, estimated at 10 billion records and growing at a rate of 40 percent per year. First Life Research, Ltd. (FLR), has searched and… read more… First Life Research Ltd E-mail: limor@firstliferesearch.com Fig. 1. Pregnancy-related strokes on the rise: a CDC … -
A review of automated text classification in event-based biosurveillance
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Event-based biosurveillance is a practice of monitoring diverse information sources for the detection of events pertaining to human, plant, and animal health. Online documents, such as news articles, newsletters, and (micro-) blog entries, are… read more… 2011;6:e19467. *Manabu Torii E-mail: manabu.torii@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Table 1. Selected … -
Mobile Technology Systems for Surveillance in Low Resource Settings
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Mobile technology provides opportunities to monitor and improve health in areas of the world where resources are scarce. Poor infrastructure and the lack of access to medical services for millions have led to increased usage of mobile technology for… read more… *Donna Medeiros E-mail: donna_d_medeiros@yahoo.com (page number not for citation purpose) �ISDS 2011 … -
Scalable Detection of Irregular Disease Clusters Using Soft Compactness Constraints
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The spatial scan statistic [1] detects significant spatial clusters of disease by maximizing a likelihood ratio statistic F(S) over a large set of spatial regions, typically constrained by shape. The fast localized scan [2] enables scalable… read more… appear. *Skyler Speakman E-mail: skylerspeakman@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1. … -
Outbreak Response and Active Surveillance for Avian Influenza among Human Contacts in Nigeria, 2015: One Health Approach
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H5N1 virus occurs mainly in birds. It is highly contagious and deadly among them. However, transmission in human is rare. The first and only confirmed case of human infection with avian influenza H5N1 virus in Nigeria was in 2006. Sporadic infection… read more… of Health COUNTRY: Nigeria Email: gbolaabbas@yahoo.com WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU WORK IN? _x__ Human health ___ … -
Promoting the One Health Approach to prevent wildlife-borne zoonotic diseases in Bolivia – Yellow fever outbreak case study
Content Type: Case Study
Immediate detection and response to zoonotic disease outbreaks in animals are valuable strategies to prevent infections in humans. Detection and early warning of wildlife-borne pathogens are often limited by the lack of sensitized observers,… read more… of San Andres COUNTRY: Bolivia Email: ealandia.vet@gmail.com WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU WORK IN? ___ Human health _x__ …