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Rabies Vaccination Coverage and Antibody Profile of Owned Dogs in Abuja, Nigeria
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Rabies is a zoonotic disease of high public health importance. There have been documented reports of rabies in vaccinated dogs. Rabies is enzootic in domestic dogs in Nigeria. Hence, annual vaccination campaigns of dogs are advocated with the aim of… read more -
Radiographic Surveillance in Children: A System for Monitoring Epidemics Associated with Prominent Respiratory Symptoms
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Yearly epidemics of respiratory diseases occur in children. Early recognition of these and of unexpected epidemics due to new agents or as acts of biological/chemical terrorism is desirable. In this study, we evaluate the ordering of chest… read more -
Rapid Identification of Pneumonias in BioSense Data Using Radiology Text Reports
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BioSense currently receives demographic and chief complaint data from more than 360 hospitals and text radiology reports from 36 hospitals. Detection of pneumonia is an important as several Category A bioterrorism diseases as well as avian influenza… read more -
Rapid Processing of Ad-Hoc Queries against Large Sets of Time Series
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Time series analysis is very common in syndromic surveillance. Large scale biosurveillance systems typically perform thousands of time series queries per day: for example, monitoring of nationwide over-thecounter (OTC) sales data may require… read more -
Real Time EMS Events as Surrogate Events in Syndromic Surveillance
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Prehospital EMS data is rarely mentioned in discus-sions surrounding syndromic surveillance for covert bio-terrorism attacks or for the … read more -
Real Time Syndromic Surveillance Response to UK Flooding Incident 2007
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Wetter and stormier weather is predicted in the UK as global temperatures rise. It is likely there will be increases in river and coastal flooding. The known short and medium term health effects of flooding are drowning, injury, acute asthma, skin… read more -
Real-Time Surveillance: Cutting-Edge Technology in NH
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The Automated Hospital Emergency Department Data (AHEDD) System was designed to detect early indicators of bioterrorism and naturally occurring health risks. Initial development includes real-time data collection from four pilot hospitals, an… read more -
Reducing the Delay in Detecting an Influenza Epidemic with More Sensitive Case Detection Algorithms
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Measures aimed at controlling epidemics of infectious diseases critically benefit from early outbreak recognition [1]. SSS seek early detection by focusing on pre-diagnostic symptoms that by themselves may not alarm clinicians. We have previously… read more