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ChatterGrabber: A Lightweight Easy to Use Social Media Surveillance Toolkit
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Despite numerous successes in using social media to detect food borne illness and to predict influenza trends, the use of social media as a public health tool has yet to gain widespread adoption. While social media data cannot directly diagnose… read more… A Lightweight Easy to Use Social Media Surveillance Toolkit … -
Avian Flu, Ebola, MERS, and Other Emerging Challenges for Influenza Surveillance Practitioners
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Public health practitioners endeavor to expand and refine their syndromic and other advanced surveillance systems which are designed to supplement their existing laboratory testing and disease surveillance toolkit. While much of the development and… read more… existing laboratory testing and disease surveillance toolkit. While much of the development and widespread … existing laboratory testing and disease surveillance toolkit. While much of the development and widespread … -
Ebola, Enterovirus, MERS, Novel Flu, and other Challenges for Public Health Surveillance Practitioners
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Public health practitioners endeavor to expand and refine their syndromic and other advanced surveillance systems that are designed to supplement their existing laboratory testing and disease surveillance toolkit. While much of the development and… read more… existing laboratory testing and disease surveillance toolkit. While much of the development and widespread … existing laboratory testing and disease surveillance toolkit. While much of the development and widespread … -
Development of Genomic Surveillance Bioinformatics Modules
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Whole-genome sequencing of disease-causing organisms provides an unabridged examination of the genetic content of individual pathogen isolates, enabling public health laboratories to benefit from comparative analyses of total genetic content.… read more… To this end we have created a modular genomics analysis toolkit that can easily integrate diverse data streams and … To this end we have created a modular genomics analysis toolkit that can easily integrate diverse data streams and … -
Using SAGES OpenESSENCE for Mass Gathering Events
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The SAGES (Suite for Automated Global Electronic bioSurveillance) team at the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory was approached by the Public Health Division of the Research, Evidence and Information Programme of the Secretariat of… read more… the feasibility of using the SAGES disease surveillance toolkit for two mass gathering events, the 8th Micronesian … the feasibility of using the SAGES disease surveillance toolkit for two mass gathering events, the 8th Micronesian …