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Acute Flaccid Myelitis – Surveillance updates and CDC activities, 2018
Content Type: Webinar
Presented December 20, 2018. The presentation will provide a summary of the epidemiology of AFM during the increase in cases in 2018 and updates on CDC’s AFM activities. Presenters Adriana Lopez, MHS,… read more… § Both queries return a lot of false positive visits when run “wide-open” § Muscle weakness, it’s … Broad AFM Query www.healthsurveillance.org 4,267 Visits 16 Query Results – HHS Region 4, 0-18 years old, … -
Enhanced Surveillance for Aedes Mosquitoes in the Arizona Border Region
Content Type: Case Study
In 2014, a dengue outbreak affected northern Mexico and travel-associated dengue cases increased in southern Arizona. While Arizona has not detected a local dengue case, local transmission occurred in Nogales, Sonora, sister city of Nogales, Arizona… read more… ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES COUNTRY: USA Email: MARIANA.CASAL@AZDHS.GOV WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU WORK … with our community participants primarily through email. In some cases we lost communication with participants … -
Predictors of vaccination uptake for the 2009 influenza pandemic (H1N1) in Montreal
Content Type: Abstract
Work on vaccination timing and promotion largely precedes the 2009 pandemic. Post-pandemic studies examining the wide range of local vaccination efforts mostly have been limited to surveys assessing the role of administrative strategies, logistical… read more… a pandemic. Vaccine. 2010;29:5519�25. *Luc de Montigny E-mail: luc.demontigny@mail.mcgill.ca (page number not for citation purpose) Table … -
Electronic Surveillance for Injury Prevention Using a Physician-Operated System
Content Type: Abstract
When hazardous materials or products emerge in the market, injury prevention researchers take action to promote awareness and legislation with the goal to prevent further injuries. This cannot be achieved without reliable data on trends and outcomes… read more… Marija Borjan* and Margaret Lumia Role of Influenza in ED Visits and Hospitalizations of Adults Over 65 Years in … 2, Umashanthi Pavalanathan1, 3 and Courtney D. Corley1 ED Visits Related to Marijuana Exposures in the Denver … Case Detection of Marijuana-Related Emergency Department Visits Kathryn H. DeYoung*1, Robert Beum1, Yushiuan Chen2, … -
Klompas et al. Respond: Automated Public Health Reporting-- Possible with a Coalition of the Willing
Content Type: Abstract
Professor Hripcsak rightly points out some of the challenges inherent in disseminating and sustaining robust information systems to automate the detection and reporting of notifiable diseases using data from electronic medical records (EMR). New… read more… and Prevention, 133 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215 (e-mail: mklompas@partners.org). 1 Advances in Disease … definitions. When a new code is detected, ESP sends an e-mail alert to ESP administrators, asking them to review and … -
Hepatitis A Surveillance Evaluation in Mafraq Health Directorate, Jordan 2010
Content Type: Abstract
Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection is usually mild in childhood but more severe in adolescents and adults'. An estimated 1.4 million cases of HAV infection occur annually in the world. The case-fatality rate among patients of all ages is… read more… Diseases Directorate, Jordan MOH, 2009. *Ghazi Sharkas E-mail: ghazisharkas@yahoo.com (page number not for citation … Reporting procedure is telephone based and ‘regular mail’ based, which is affordable to all reporting centers … -
Aiding the practice of tuberculosis control: a decision support model to predict transmission
Content Type: Abstract
A new TB case can be classified as: 1) a source case for transmission leading to other, secondary active TB cases; 2) a secondary case, resulting from recent transmission; or 3) an isolated case, uninvolved in recent transmission (i.e. neither… read more… Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2008;12:480�92. *Hiroshi Mamiya E-mail: hiroshi.mamiya@mail.mcgill.ca (page number not for citation purpose) Table … -
in silico Surveillance: Informing Surveillance with Simulation
Content Type: Webinar
Simulations of infectious disease spread have increasingly been used to inform public policy for planning and response to outbreaks. As these techniques have increased in sophistication a wider array of uses becomes appropriate. In particular,… read more… ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 0 200 400 600 0 2 0 4 0 6 0 8 0 Clinic visits and Recurrence Interval − Real HPHC data Days V is it … ● ● ● ● ● ● 0 200 400 600 0 2 0 4 0 6 0 8 0 1 0 0 Clinic visits and Recurrence Interval − Run 1 Days V is it s t o t … ● ● ● ● ● ● 0 200 400 600 0 2 0 4 0 6 0 8 0 1 0 0 Clinic visits and Recurrence Interval − Run 1 Days V is it s t o t …