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View Post: Federal Telemedicine News: Enhanced Disease Surveillance
17 Nov 2009 by Carolyn Bloch  
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in their “Emerging Pandemic Threats Program” (EPT) is building disease surveillance and training programs, especially for avian and pandemic influenza. ...
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View Post: Global Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection: Assessing ...
29 Oct 2007 by aarose@nas.edu  
The Institute of Medicine's Forum on Microbial Threats convened a workshop addressing Global Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection: Assessing the Challenges-Finding Solutions on December 12 and 13, 2006, to consider scientific ...
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View Post: MPL Gov Info
16 hours ago by RDmpl  
"Comprehensive disease surveillance systems are important for developing preventive health policies and tracking their impact in populations at high risk. Although existing chronic disease surveillance systems function well at the ...
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View Post: Adolescent Girls Bear Highest Burden of Sexually Transmitted ...
23 hours ago by Jodi Jacobson  
The report – Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance, 2008, which tracks reported cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in the United States – also showed that African-Americans continue to be more disproportionately affected by ...
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View Post: CANADEM
19 Nov 2009 by CANADEM  
f) Collaborate in the application of epidemiological concepts, principles, and methods to the planning, programming, administration, and evaluation of disease surveillance, prevention, and control programs; ...
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View Post: Tamiflu-Resistant Swine Flu Cluster Reported in NC
EMS Flight Crew
19 hours ago by Michael   ...
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View Post: Connecting CHORDS
9 Nov 2009 by abengtson  
Last week I had the privilege of attending the Connecting Health Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CHORDS) meeting at the Dead Sea in Jordan. CHORDS is a program of the NTI/Global Health Security Initiative, that connects ...
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View Post: Epidemics and Infectious Disease - Dr. Alan Zelicoff
15 Nov 2009 by David Lemberg  
The result of this activity is a real-time clinician-based disease surveillance and reporting system called the Syndrome Reporting Information System (SYRIS) which is now being used by public health officials responsible for monitoring ...
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