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Outbreak of ED visits related to the use of synthetic cannabinoids, Mayotte Island
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On October 2016, the Indian Ocean Regional Health Agency was alerted about an increase in ED visits related to adverse reactions associated with use of SC on Mayotte Island. In this context, an investigation based on a syndromic surveillance system… read more -
Streamlining Foodborne Disease Surveillance with Open-Source Data Management Software
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The National Surveillance Team in the Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collects electronic data from all state and regional public health laboratories on human infections caused by… read more -
Free-Text Mining to Improve Syndrome Definition Matching Across Emergency Departments
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Standard syndrome definitions for ED visits in ESSENCE rely on chief complaints. Visits with more words in the chief complaint field are more likely to match syndrome definitions. While using ESSENCE, we observed geographic differences in chief… read more -
Opioid Surveillance using Social Media: How URLs are shared among Reddit members
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Nearly 100 people per day die from opioid overdose in the United States. Further, prescription opioid abuse is assumed to be responsible for a 15-year increase in opioid overdose deaths. However, with increasing use of social media comes increasing… read more -
Leveraging Discussions on Reddit for Disease Surveillance
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In recent years, individuals have been using social network sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit to discuss health-related topics. These social media platforms consequently became new avenues for research and applications for researchers, for… read more -
Tablet-based participatory syndromic surveillance at Simhashta festival in India
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Infectious disease surveillance for generating early warnings to enable a prompt response during mass gatherings has long been a challenge in India as well as in other parts of the world. Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh in Central India hosted one of the… read more -
Heroin Overdose Hospitalization Risk due to Prescription Opioids using PDMP in WI.
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Nationally and in Wisconsin, heroin is the leading cause of opioid related death and hospitalization. Opioids are commonly prescribed for pain. Every day, over 1,000 people are treated in emergency departments for misusing prescription opioids. In… read more -
Qualitative and Quantitative Predictions of Infectious Diseases in Shirak Marz
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The frequency of disease outbreaks varies as a result of complex biological processes. Analysis of these frequencies can reveal patterns that can serve as a basis for predictions. Objective: The goal of this study was to… read more
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