The second annual Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza Conference, which took place in
February 2007 in Arlington, Virginia, focused on recent progress in basic and clinical …

Syndromic surveillance refers to methods relying on detection of individual and population
health indicators that are discernible before confirmed diagnoses are made. In particular …

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its millions of
users to send and read each other's “tweets,” or short, 140-character messages. The service …

In the field of syndromic surveillance, various sources are exploited for outbreak detection,
monitoring and prediction. This paper describes a study on queries submitted to a medical …

Public health agencies and other groups have invested considerable resources in
automated surveillance systems over the last decade. These systems generally follow …

For robust detection performance, traditional control chart monitoring for biosurveillance is
based on input data free of trends, day‐of‐week effects, and other systematic behaviour …

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the level of influenza in a population
correlates with the number of times that internet users access information about influenza on …

Abstract The 2002 Olympic Winter Games were held in Utah from February 8 to March 16,
2002. Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and the anthrax release in …

Background The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is a mass gathering event
that will present a major public health challenge. The Health Protection Agency, in …

In any country the health sector is important in terms of human wellbeing and large in terms
of economics. The health sector might therefore be expected to be a finely tuned enterprise …