News tagged with disease surveillance
94 French farms struck by new 'Schmallenberg' virus
Ninety-four farms in northern France have been hit by a novel virus, first uncovered in Germany last year, that strikes cattle, sheep and goats, a French research agency reported on Tuesday.
Feb 14, 2012 |
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Nearly one 1 in 12 in US have asthma: study
Asthma cases in the United States have risen 12.3 percent since 2001, and nearly one in 12, or almost 25 million Americans, are stricken with the chronic respiratory disease, the government said Tuesday.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 03, 2011 |
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Significant variations found among medical centers regarding bloodstream infections surveillance
The quality of public reporting of bloodstream infection rates among hospitals may be effected by the variation in surveillance methods, according to a study in the November 10 issue of JAMA.
Nov 09, 2010 |
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Mosquito monitoring saves lives and money, analysis finds
Cutting surveillance for mosquito-borne diseases would likely translate into an exponential increase in both the number of human cases and the health costs when a disease outbreak occurs, according to an analysis by Emory ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 26, 2010 |
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Researchers envision better disease surveillance to improve public health
With current public health threats ranging from swine flu to bioterrorism to environmental contamination, innovations that better predict disease outbreaks have vast potential to protect the public. In a paper published online ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 13, 2010 |
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Nearly half of states need to improve outbreak reporting, says CSPI
The national cost of foodborne illness has been estimated at the astronomical sum of $152 billion annually, but the information on who is getting sick and what is causing those illnesses is part of a state-by-state surveillance ...
Mar 24, 2010 |
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Protecting humans and animals from diseases in wildlife
Avian influenza (H5N1), rabies, plague, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), and more recently swine flu (H1N1) are all examples of diseases that have made the leap from animals to humans. As the list continues to grow, ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 07, 2009 |
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IOM report released on species-jumping diseases
Significant weaknesses undermine the global community's abilities to prevent, detect early, and respond efficiently to potentially deadly species-crossing microbes, such as the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus sweeping the globe, ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 22, 2009 |
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More to Second Life than just sex
Researchers at the University of Toronto and the University Health Network's Centre for Innovation in Complex Care (CICC) have found that a wide array of health-related activity occurs in the 3 dimensional virtual world of ...
May 25, 2009 |
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