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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Infectious disease surveillance"”.
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News Analytics for Global Infectious Disease Surveillance
Traditional disease surveillance can be augmented with a wide variety of open sources, such as online news media, twitter, blogs, and web search records. Rapidly increasing volumes of these open sources are proving to be extremely valuable resources in helping analyze, detect, and forecast …
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Infectious Disease Surveillance Using Emerging Data Sources: Applications to Antimicrobial Resistance and COVID-19
… public awareness of the deadly threat posed by infectious diseases in our interconnected world. We face mounting challenges in tackling both emerging diseases as well as longstanding threats like the rising tide of antimicrobial resistance. Simultaneously, the digital revolution has unleashed a …
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Insights from serological surveillance in infectious disease epidemiology
Traditional infectious disease surveillance methods rely on testing of symptomatic individuals. However, such methods are often poor indicators of the true burden of infection in a population due to varying rates of subclinical infections, non-specific symptoms, and heterogeneity in health seeking …
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The Politics of Operationalizing the World Health Organization Activities: Global Politics, Health Security and the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network
Infectious diseases attract a lot of mediatic, cultural and political attention. But are those diseases like Ebola, or ‘disease x’ actually what kills us? Since 1946, the WHO is the most authoritative figure in the fights against infectious disease outbreaks. So how does the WHO maintain this power …