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Limb Elephantiasis as Predictor for the Occurrence and Spread of Lymphatic Filariasis in Kano State, Nigeria
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Lymphatic filariasis is one of the most prevalent of the tropical diseases, but is also the most neglected.Though significant advances have been made in the understanding both the disease and its control, there is general lack of information about… read more… Zaria, Nigeria * Corresponding Author:mmdogara@yahoo.com Objective This paper describes how limb elephantiasis … was observed to have lymphoedema of the limbs which may be pitting or non-pitting. The search for persons with … -
A Closer Look at Developing a Statewide Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System in a Rural State
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This paper describes the issues associated with the creation of a statewide emergency department syndromic surveillance system, part of the South Carolina Aberration Alerting Network (SCAAN), in a predominately rural state.… health practice, New York City. Emerg Infect Dis. 2004 May;10(5):858-64. Erratum in: Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 … -
A Novel Application of Syndromic Methods of Monitor Temporal Changes in the Specificity of an Oral HIV Test
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To apply syndromic techniques in assessing whether the false-positive rate (FP rate) of a rapid oral HIV test, routinely used for screening in New York CityÃs STD clinics, deviated from the manufacturerÃs claim; results of which have important… read more… monitoring the temporal pattern in test specificity and may help public health officials to better assess when a … -
Cross Border Syndromic Surveillance- Overview and Recommendations from an ISDS Consultation Held in Kingston, Ontario Canada, June 11-12th, 2007
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The objectives of the two day International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) funded consultation were to develop expert, consensus-based recommendations that address specific, unanswered questions that hinder advances in cross border… read more… • Identify how syndromic surveillance alerts may be shared across borders and how to address the barriers … -
Data-Adaptive Multivariate Control Charts for Routine Health Monitoring
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This paper investigates the use of data-adaptive multivariate statistical process control (MSPC) charts for outbreak detection using real-world syndromic data. The widely used EARS [1] methods and other adaptive implementations assume implicitly… read more… This paper investigates the use of data-adaptive mul- tivariate statistical process control (MSPC) charts for … -
Disease Surveillance among Katrina Evacuees in Shelters - Use of a Web-Based Surveillance System during an Emergency Response
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On Monday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. Outside of the affected areas of TX, LA, MS, and AL, GA received the largest number of these evacuees, approximately 125,000. By August 30, 2005, GA began receiving a total of… read more… conditions re- sulted in medical care provided inside (70 refer- rals/1,000 resident-days) and outside (9 refer- … Accessed: May 22, 2006. [2] KM McNeill, et al. Surveillance for … -
Document classification toward efficient 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 health. Online documents, such as news articles on the Internet, have commonly been the … read more… that is, few labeled irrelevant (or relevant) articles may be available because of labeling bias (or to the … N, Doan S, Kawazoe A, Goodwin RM, Conway M, Tateno Y, et al. BioCaster: detecting public health rumors with a … -
Timeliness of Over-the-Counter Drug Sales as an Early Indicator of Community Disease Outbreaks in Hong Kong
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Overseas studies showed that increases in over-the-counter (OTC) drug sales might serve as an indicator of community disease outbreaks before they are detected by conventional surveillance systems. Using data collected… read more… factors such as advertising, pricing and sales promotion may affect the overall sales of common cold medications. …