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Objective

The National Biosurveillance Integration System (NBIS) is a consortium of federal agencies, whose joint objective is to enhance the identification, location, characterization, and tracking of biological events potentially impacting homeland security. Together, the consortium members benefit from a joint awareness of potentially significant biological events that are unfolding or imminent, based on information shared among the group. This presentation describes the framework, activities and benefits for NBIS participants, and invites participation by other agencies.

Submitted by hparton on
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The 2010 NATO DSS experiment was the second deployment of the French ‘Alerte et Surveillance en Temps Re´el’ (ASTER) system within a multinational armed task force in real operational conditions. This experiment was scheduled within the ASTER evaluation program, as constructed by French and NATO Armed Forces after several previous works.

Objective

The new NATO Disease Surveillance System (DSS) was deployed for the second time in Kosovo within the multinational armed forces in 2010 for a 3 days experiment. The objective of the survey was to continue the development of real-time disease surveillance capability for NATO forces, in parallel with the implementation of the NATO Deployment Health Surveillance Centre in Munich in 2010.

Submitted by teresa.hamby@d… on
Description

To determine sensitivity and specificity of syndromic surveillance of influenza based on data from SOS Medecins, a healthcare network of emergency general practitioners (GP) in Bordeaux, France.

Submitted by elamb on
Description

In July 2006, an important heat wave occurred in France, and generated alarm of all the public health services. In Gironde, a department in region Aquitaine, the level of "warning and actions" of the Heat Health Watch Warning System, based on an analysis of weather-mortality relationship, was activated from the 16th and the 27th of July, when the limits of biometeorological indicators were reached [1].

Objective

To assess health impact of heat wave occurred in July 2006 through data from emergency activity and mortality from syndromic surveillance systems in Gironde, a department in south-western France.

Submitted by elamb on
Description

A pandemic caused by influenza A/H5N1 or another novel strain could kill millions of people and devastate economies worldwide. Recent computer simulations suggest that an emerging influenza pandemic might be contained in Southeast Asia through rapid detection, antiviral distribution, and other interventions [1]. To facilitate containment, the World Health Organization (WHO) has established large, global antiviral stockpiles and called on countries to develop rapid pandemic detection and response protocols [2]. However, developing countries in Southeast Asia would face significant challenges in containing an emerging pandemic. Limited surveillance coverage and diagnostic capabilities; poor communication and transportation infrastructure; and lack of resources to investigate outbreaks could cause critical delays in pandemic recognition. Wealthy countries have committed substantial funds to improve pandemic detection and response in developing countries, but tools to guide system planning, evaluation, and enhancement in such places are lacking.

Objective

We propose a framework for evaluating the ability of syndromic, laboratory-based, and other public health surveillance systems to contain an emerging influenza pandemic influenza in developing countries, and apply the framework to systems in Laos.

Submitted by elamb on
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Security threats and the recent emergence of avian influenza in Europe have heightened the profile of and need for a good surveillance strategy during such events. The two main rationales for enhanced infectious disease surveillance at mass events include a perceived increased risk of infectious disease events and a need to detect and respond to events more quickly. Moreover, the requirements of the International Health Regulations (IHR) issued by the World Health Organization (WHO), which take effect in mid-2007, define the need for timely reporting of infectious diseases during international mass events [1]. Therefore, an enhanced surveillance, based on Germany’s pre-existing system of mandatory notifications was conducted in the12 World Cup cities.

Objective

In this abstract, we describe the major findings of an evaluation of our enhanced infectious disease surveillance activities during the FIFA Soccer World Cup 2006 in Germany.

Submitted by elamb on
Description

In France, surveillance of seasonal gastroenteritis uses to be monitored by an information system based on a computer network of physicians so called Sentinel Network (1). Regionally, the use of this system as limitations. SOS Medecin is an organization of general practitioners, present in many French cities, which undertakes home medical visits 24hrs a day, 7 days a week. In Bordeaux, this organization makes a daily transmission of every diagnostic related to their visits.

Objective

To construct an indicator adapted for syndromic surveillance of seasonal gastroenteritis based on data from "SOS Medecin" in the city of Bordeaux, France.

Submitted by elamb on
Description

In Rwanda, communicable diseases are the mostly predominant representing 90% of all reported medical consultations in health centers. The country has often faced epidemics including emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. To enhance its preparedness to identify and respond to outbreaks and prevent epidemics, the Government of Rwanda has developed and deployed an electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (eIDSR) working with Voxiva with funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC).

Objective:

(1) To describe the implementation of the electronic system for integrated disease surveillance in Rwanda.

(2) To present the sensitivity and specificity of the electronic reporting system to detect potential outbreaks

 

Submitted by Magou on
Description

To evaluate the added value of a syndromic surveillance system in detecting a large severe respiratory disease outbreak with a point-source we used the Legionnaires' disease (LD) outbreak of 1999 in the Netherlands as a case-study. We retrospectively simulated a prospective syndromic surveillance for space-time clusters of patients with pneumonia in hospital records to detect the LD outbreak.

Submitted by elamb on