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Syndromic Surveillance for Arboviral Diseases in Arizona
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Arizona reports an average of 116 cases of West Nile virus (WNV) each year, and in 2015, Arizona saw a reemergence of St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) virus. In addition, Arizona is at risk for importation of viruses such as chikungunya, dengue, and… read more… Maricopa Department of Public Health RasneetKumar@mail.maricopa.gov Document … Maricopa Department of Public Health RasneetKumar@mail.maricopa.gov Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … -
Novel Approach to Statewide Biosurveillance Using Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Information
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The purpose of the National Collaborative for Bio-preparedness (NCB-P) is to enhance biosurveillance and situational awareness to better inform decision-making using a statewide approach. EMS represents a unique potential data source because it… read more… outbreaks-sickens-nearly-400-in-nc/. *Charles Cairns E-mail: ccairns@med.unc.edu (page number not for citation … -
Significant multiple high and low risk regions in event data maps
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The Voronoi Based Scan (VBScan)[1] is a fast method for the detection and inference of point data set space-time disease clusters. A Voronoi diagram is built for points representing population individuals (cases and controls). The number of Voronoi… read more… town. Int J Health Geogr. 2011;10:29. *Luiz Duczmal E-mail: duczmal@ufmg.br (page number not for citation purpose) … -
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… greatly all public health environment. *Limor Bar-Hai E-mail: limor@firstliferesearch.com (page number not for … -
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… Head of medical informatics at First Life Research Ltd E-mail: limor@firstliferesearch.com Fig. 1. Pregnancy-related … -
Improving syndromic surveillance for non-power users: NC DETECT dashboards
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NC DETECT provides near-real-time statewide surveillance capacity to local, regional and state level users across NC with twice daily data feeds from 117 (99%) emergency departments (EDs), hourly updates from the statewide poison center, and daily… read more… J. 2011;4:s111. doi: 10.3134/ehtj.10.111. *Amy Ising E-mail: ising@ad.unc.edu (page number not for citation … -
Web Search Query Data to Monitor Dengue Epidemics: a New Model for Dengue Surveillance
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With an estimated 500 million people infected each year, dengue ranks as one of the most significant mosquito-borne viral human diseases, and one of the most rapidly emerging vectorborne diseases. A variety of obstacles including bureaucracy and… read more… the present with Google trends; 2009. *John Brownstein E-mail: john.brownstein@childrens.harvard.edu (page number not … -
Mapping the uncertainty of non-contagious disease clusters boundaries in Brazil
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The intrinsic variability that exists in the cases counting data for aggregated-area maps amounts to a corresponding uncertainty in the delineation of the most likely cluster found by methods based on the spatial scan statistics [3]. If this cluster… read more… Statist Theor Meth. 1997;26:1481�96. *Sabino Ferreira E-mail: sabino@est.ufmg.br (page number not for citation …