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Conducting Research in Disease Outbreaks [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2009 Conducting research in an emergency situation, such as an outbreak of disease, poses ethical challenges. These challenges differ according to the type of research: epidemiologic or clinical, and for the latter, whether the disease outbreak can be anticipated in advance. We address these three situations, proposing different potential solutions for each.
Ethan Cowan, Ruth Macklin
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Incentives for Reporting Disease Outbreaks [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Countries face conflicting incentives to report infectious disease outbreaks. Reports of outbreaks can prompt other countries to impose trade and travel restrictions, which has the potential to discourage reporting. However, reports can also bring medical assistance to contain the outbreak, including access to vaccines.We compiled data on reports of ...
Ramanan Laxminarayan +5 more
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Investigating A Disease Outbreak [PDF]
Significance, 2020 Abstract Teams of epidemiological and medical “detectives” are working to get a coronavirus pandemic under control. Ronald D. Fricker, Jr and Steven E.
Fricker Jr, Ronald D., Rigdon, Steven E.
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On the predictability of infectious disease outbreaks [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2019 AbstractInfectious disease outbreaks recapitulate biology: they emerge from the multi-level interaction of hosts, pathogens, and environment. Therefore, outbreak forecasting requires an integrative approach to modeling. While specific components of outbreaks are predictable, it remains unclear whether fundamental limits to outbreak prediction exist ...
Samuel V. Scarpino, Giovanni Petri
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Legionnaires' disease: when an 'outbreak' is not an outbreak
Weekly releases (1997–2007), 2006 During August 2006, there was a large increase in non-travel related legionella cases throughout England and in the ...
J. V. Lee +9 more
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Communicable disease outbreaks: Ethics in an outbreak
Australian Journal of General Practice, 2020 This fifth article in a series on communicable disease outbreaks explores ethical aspects of public health action, information disclosure and research in an epidemic.
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Outbreak of Meningococcal Disease in Devon [PDF]
BMJ, 1974 In a recent outbreak of 31 cases of meningococcal disease in Devon there were six deaths. Several patients had an unusual rash as the presenting feature and there was an unusually high incidence of complications, affecting the central nervous system, joints, and the heart among other sites.
D. M. Easton +5 more
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Tracking disease outbreaks [PDF]
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 2002 Scientists have come one step closer to tracking outbreaks of bartonellosis, a potentially fatal vector‐borne disease. Outbreaks of the disease, which was once thought to be found primarily in the high Andes Mountains of Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, may be related to El Ni˜no events, according to researchers with NASA and the U.S.
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An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Gloucester [PDF]
Epidemiology and Infection, 1991 SUMMARYFourteen people living in or near the city of Gloucester fell ill with Legionnaires' disease caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroup (SG) 1 between 27 August and 27 October 1986. Another patient had fallen ill on 30 May. Nine of the 15 were diagnosed retrospectively during a case finding exercise. There were three deaths.
D. A. Hunt +7 more
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