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Sero-Prevalence of Rubella Virus among Pregnant Women in Kaduna State Nigeria 2015
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Rubella virus causes -“German measles,” also known as “three-day measles.” This is usually a milder disease than red measles. Red/Hard measles or just measles is caused by Rubeola virus. The result of acute infection of the virus is a benign… read more -
Socio-environmental and measurement factors drive variation in influenza-like illness
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Traditional infectious disease epidemiology is built on the foundation of high quality and high accuracy data on disease and behavior. Digital infectious disease epidemiology, on the other hand, uses existing digital traces, re-purposing them to… read more -
Spatial analysis of SS population coverage based on emergency regional healthcare
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SOS Médecins France (SOS Med) is the first private and permanent network of general practitioners providing emergency care in France. Besides Hospital emergency departments (HED), SOS Med is therefore a major source of data for detecting and… read more -
Spatio-Temporal Cluster Detection for Legionellosis using Multiple Patient Addresses
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The Bureau of Communicable Disease (BCD) at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene performs daily automated analyses using SaTScan to detect spatio-temporal clusters for 37 reportable diseases. Initially, we analyzed one address per patient… read more -
Spread of Clostridium botulinum in the soils of Georgia
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Accumulation of C. botulinum in soil occurs through excretion of bacterial spores from the intestines of humans, animals, birds and fish. In Georgia, during the winter season, the population consumes homemade vegetable preserves, which are made of… read more -
Spread of Middle East Respiratory Coronavirus: Genetic versus Epidemiological Data
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MERS-CoV was discovered in 2012 in the Middle East and human cases around the world have been carefully reported by the WHO. MERS-CoV virus is a novel betacoronavirus closely related to a virus (NeoCov) hosted by a bat, Neoromicia capensis. MERS-CoV… read more -
Streamling Syndromic Surveillance Submission on a Dime: Oregon’s Experience
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In 2012, the Oregon Public Health Division (OPHD) took advantage of the opportunity created by Meaningful Use, a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Incentive Program, to implement statewide syndromic surveillance. The Oregon… read more -
Successful implementation of electronic disease reporting in Georgia
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The Ministry of Health of Georgia accepted the Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance System (EIDSS) as an official disease reporting system in 2012. The Georgian government adopted electronic reporting for both veterinary and human diseases in… read more