Several new viral respiratory tract infectious diseases with epidemic potential that threaten
global health security have emerged in the past 15 years. In 2003, WHO issued a worldwide …

This volume hopes to fill a growing need for the description of current methodology in public
health surveillance. Recent advances in syndromic surveillance and, more generally, in …

Importance Cardiovascular deaths and influenza epidemics peak during winter in temperate
regions. Objectives To quantify the temporal association between population increases in …

Background The ability to detect disease outbreaks early is important in order to minimize
morbidity and mortality through timely implementation of disease prevention and control …

and chapter 7 focuses on modeling of spatial distribution of diseases. Finally, chapter 8
explains data-driven and knowledge-driven modeling for risk assessment and management …

The goal of influenza-like illness (ILI) surveillance is to determine the timing, location and
magnitude of outbreaks by monitoring the frequency and progression of clinical case …

After information about a dengue case in Germany acquired in Croatia, health professionals
and the public in Croatia were alerted to assess the situation and to enhance mosquito …

Objectives To evaluate current processes by which young children presenting with a febrile
illness but suspected of having serious bacterial infection are diagnosed and treated, and to …

The spatial scan statistic is commonly used for geographical disease cluster detection,
cluster evaluation and disease surveillance. The most commonly used shape of the …

After onset of a cholera epidemic in Haiti in mid-October 2010, a team of researchers from
France and Haiti implemented field investigations and built a database of daily cases to …