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Epidemiology of Suspected Pesticide Poisoning in Livestock
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Pesticides are used in agriculture and in the home to control pests such as insects, weeds, fungi and rodents. Pesticide poisoning in animals is usually due to misuse or accidental exposure. Information on poisonings in livestock in North America is… read more -
Field Team Syndromic Surveillance for Mass Gatherings: NCAA Final Four 2017
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Final Four-associated events culminated in four days of intense activity from 3/31/17-4/3/17, which attracted an estimated 400,000 visitors to Maricopa County (population 4.2 million). Field teams of staff and volunteers were deployed to three days… read more -
Public Health Decisions Using Point of Care Data from Open Source Systems in Africa
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Ministries of Health in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC) are making or trying to make public health decisions for infectious disease conditions like HIV using data garnered from sentinel events and disease tracking in the community. The… read more -
CDC June 2016 Community of Practice Webinar Recording
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Drs. Arens, Vo, van Wijk, and Coffin will present a cluster of opioid-related poisoning cases and deaths in San Francisco following ingestion of counterfeit pills designed to look like prescription medication. They will describe the clinical cases… read more -
Mortality surveillance in the Netherlands: severity of winter 2016/2017
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The mortality monitoring system (initiated in 2009 during the influenza A(H1N1) pandemic) is a collaboration between the Centre for Infectious Disease Control (CIb) of National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and Statistics… read more -
Improving the Quality of Data Exchange Formats in the U.S. National Tuberculosis Surveillance System
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Disease surveillance systems remain the best quality systems to rely on when standardized surveillance systems provide the best data to understand disease occurrence and trends. The United States National Tuberculosis Surveillance System (NTSS)… read more -
Risk of HIV among the seasonal Labour Migrants of Nepal
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HIV and AIDS is not a new problem to global community and human civilization. Though much efforts had been taken yet its devastating effects can be seen in many areas like human productivity, public health, human rights etc. Nepal is experiencing a… read more -
Validation of Syndromic ILI Data for Use in CDC’s ILINet Surveillance, Pennsylvania
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ILINet is a CDC program that has been used for years for influenza-like illness (ILI) surveillance, using a network of outpatient providers who volunteer to track and report weekly the number of visits due to ILI and the total number of visits to… read more