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Improving Cattle Market Syndromic Surveillance Through Electronic Data Capture
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An active syndromic surveillance system was designed to collect cattle health information from a sample of Texas cattle market sales. Texas Animal Health Commission livestock inspectors record the total number of animals observed along with the… read more -
Evaluation of Syndromic Surveillance Data Streams in Animal Health
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USDA-APHIS-VS utilizes several continuous data streams to increase our knowledge of animal health and provide situational awareness of emerging animal health issues. In addition, USDA- APHIS-VS often conducts pilot projects to see if regular data… read more -
Equine Syndromic Surveillance in Colorado Using Veterinary Laboratory Test Order Data
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The Risk Identification Unit (RIU) of the US Dept. of Agriculture’s Center for Epidemiology and Animal Health (CEAH) conducts weekly surveillance of national livestock health data and routine coordination with agricultural stakeholders. In an… read more -
Somebody’s Poisoned the Waterhole: ASPCA Poison Control Center Data to Identify Animal Health Risks
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The APCC hotline fields daily calls regarding potential animal intoxications from the US, its territories, and Canada. We explored the value of these data for identifying increased occurrences of intoxications related to livestock and poultry… read more -
Is There a Need for One Health Surveillance (OHS)?
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As interest in One Health (OH) continues to grow, alternative surveillance infrastructure may be needed to support it. Since most population health surveillance is domain specific; as opposed to OH which crosses multiple domains, changes to… read more -
Where do you Find Interesting Biosurveillance Publications?
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To identify the disciplines and journal titles of surveillance-related publications from a wide range of indexed repositories and to draw attention to the publication repository created by the ISDS Research Committee. Introduction… read more -
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 -
Detection of a Swine Erysipelas Outbreak Using Enhanced Passive Surveillance
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EPS is a comprehensive effort to complement other types of surveillance and provide early detection and situational awareness of significant endemic, zoonotic, and emerging diseases of livestock. The concept for EPS involves gathering syndromic and… read more