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  • 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 *Manabu Torii E-mail: manabu.torii@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Table 1.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    … *Donna Medeiros E-mail: donna_d_medeiros@yahoo.com (page number not for citation purpose) �ISDS 2011 …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 *Skyler Speakman E-mail: skylerspeakman@gmail.com (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1.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

    Content Type: Case Study

    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

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    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__ …
  • Use of emergency department data for case finding following a community anthrax exposure

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    On 24 December 2009, a female New Hampshire resident was confirmed to have gastrointestinal anthrax on the basis of clinical findings and laboratory testing. Her source of anthrax was not immediately known, so the New Hampshire… read more
    … syndrome terms in chief complaint text fields and ICD-9-CM codes associated with the three manifestations of anthrax … and gastrointestinal). Chief complaint text and ICD-9-CM query results were reviewed by surveillance staff and a … Swenson et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 91 Conclusions New Hampshire’s emergency …
  • Automatic and Secure Data Transfer of Syndromic Data between Hospitals and Public Health Using the PHINMS

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    The Public Health Information Network (PHIN) Messaging Service (PHINMS) is a PHIN-certified messaging system, initiated and supported by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. PHINMS is widely used by many… read more
    … METHODS South Carolina Dept. of Health and Environmental Con- trol (SC DHEC) personnel recruit hospitals into the … & Prevention. Public Health In- formation Network. http://www.cdc.gov/phin/ [2] The Centers for Disease Control & … Health In- formation Network Messaging System. http://www.cdc.gov/phin/phinms/ [3] The Centers for Disease Control …