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  • Can Syndromic Surveillance Data be Useful for Monitoring Respiratory Illness Activity?

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    A significant amount of resources and effort have been recently invested in syndromic surveillance systems. However, how these systems complement or compare with traditional public health surveillance systems, such as outbreak reporting, is not… read more
    … -07 Date C ou nt s of IL I a nd P ne um on ia C hi ef C om pl ai nt s 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 N um be r o f I LI /P ne … Information: Heather Brown HBrown@dhmh.state.md.us http://www.bioterrorism.dhmh.state.md.us Advances in Disease …
  • Analysis of 5 years of multi-stream surveillance and weather data in Champaign County

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    INDICATOR is a multi-stream open source platform for biosurveillance and outbreak detection, currently focused on Champaign County in Illinois. It has been in production since 2008 and is currently receiving data from emergency department, patient… read more
    … for biosurveillance and response. Syndromic 2009. http://www.ncsa. illinois.edu/News/Stories/indicator/. *Ian Brooks … 2011, 4: 11196 - DOI: 10.3402/ehtj.v4i0.11196 http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/News/Stories/indicator/ … http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/News/Stories/indicator/ 1-25 ehtj11702 …
  • Case Definition for Real-Time Surveillance of Influenza-like Illness

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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case definition of influenza-like illness (ILI) as fever with cough and/or sore throat casts a wide net resulting in lower sensitivity which can have major implications on public health… read more
    … of influenza surveillance in the United States. http://www.cdc.gov/ flu/weekly/overview.htm. Accessed January 20, … 2011, 4: 11123 - DOI: 10.3402/ehtj.v4i0.11123 http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/overview.htm http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/overview.htm 1-25 ehtj11702 ehtj_toc …
  • October Public Health Practice Influenza Surveillance Webinar

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    Krista Kniss and Scott Epperson, from the CDC Influenza Division, will be joining the ISDS Public Health Practice Committee this coming Monday, October 22, for a two-part discussion of influenza surveillance in the United States and abroad. The… read more
    … human disease, not routinely tested for  Yearly co-circulation of seasonal viruses: A (H3N2), A (H1N1), and … species Conclusions (H3N2v) • Fairs are places that pigs come together and if one are more pigs are infected there is … 1-888-232-6348 E-mail: cdcinfo@cdc.gov Web: http://www.cdc.gov The findings and conclusions in this report are …
  • The use of patient temperature data for biosurveillance in the emergency department

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    Biosurveillance systems commonly use emergency department (ED) patient chief complaint data (CC) for surveillance of influenza-like illness (ILI). Daily volumes are tracked using a computerized patient CC classifier for fever (CC… read more
    … JR Allegra.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 4 number of visits that were identified … Threats Journal DG Cochrane and JR Allegra. 2011, 4:s60 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 5 …
  • Syndromic Surveillance and Influenza-like Illness in Georgia

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    There are multiple sources of influenza and influenza-like illness (ILI) surveillance data within the state of Georgia. These include laboratory surveillance for influenza viruses, sentinel providers that report ILI, pneumonia and… read more
    … Prevention; 2005-06 U.S. Influenza Season Summary; http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2005-2006/05- … for Disease Surveillance; DiSTRIBuTE Project; http://www.syndromic.org/society/Invitation_to_DiSTRIBuTE.pdf …
  • Monitoring Hospital Emergency Department Visits for Chief Complaints of Insect Bites after a Major Flood

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    On August 20th and 21st, 2007, Ohio sustained heavy rains which resulted in severe flooding over a nine-county area in the north-central part of the state. Increased hospital emergency department (ED) visits were expected for gastrointestinal… read more
    … Online. Internet. 23 Jul. 2008. Available from: http://www.wuvcd.org/mosquito/lifecycle.html † A federal disaster … Advances in Disease Surveillance 2008;5:193 http://www.wuvcd.org/mosquito/lifecycle.html …
  • A National Scale Microsimulation of Disease Outbreaks

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    Our objective in this research is to take advantage of a supercomputer grid (TeraGrid) to develop a distributed memory national scale agent-based model (ABM) to study disease outbreaks at the micro level. This has data needs at both the national… read more
    … community-specific EpiSims can be found at http://www.midasmodels.org. Further information: Doug Roberts, droberts@rti.org http://www.midasmodels.org Advances in Disease Surveillance …