History of Newcastle disease in South Africa
Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 2017 Poultry production in South Africa, a so-called developing country, may be seen as a gradient between two extremes with highly integrated commercial enterprises with world-class facilities on one hand and unimproved rural chickens kept by households and ...
Celia Abolnik
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Analysis of foodborne disease outbreaks in China Mainland in 2016
Zhongguo shipin weisheng zazhi, 2022 ObjectiveTo study the epidemiological characteristics of foodborne disease outbreaks in China in 2016.MethodsThe foodborne disease data collected from National Foodborne Disease Outbreaks Surveillance System were analyzed.Results4 056 foodborne disease ...
LI Weiwei +6 more
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Classifying Vietnamese Disease Outbreak Reports with Important Sentences and Rich Features [PDF]
Proc. of the Third Symposium on Information and Communication
Technology (SoICT), pages 260-265, 2012, 2019 Text classification is an important field of research from mid 90s up to now. It has many applications, one of them is in Web-based biosurveillance systems which identify and summarize online disease outbreak reports. In this paper we focus on classifying Vietnamese disease outbreak reports.
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Training for Foodborne Outbreak Investigations by Using Structured Learning Experience
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020 We created a free and interactive training activity based on playing cards (disease detective cards) that introduces foodborne outbreak investigations to public health professionals and students.
Florian Burckhardt, Esther Kissling
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Analysis of foodborne disease outbreaks in Chinese Mainland in 2021
Zhongguo shipin weisheng zazhi, 2022 ObjectiveThe epidemiological characteristics of foodborne disease outbreaks in Chinese Mainland in 2021 were analyzed to provide scientific basis for further prevention and control strategies.MethodsThe epidemiological characteristics of outbreaks of ...
LI Hongqiu +9 more
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Factors Contributing to Decline in Foodborne Disease Outbreak Reports, United States
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014 The number of foodborne disease outbreaks reported in the United States declined substantially in 2009, when the surveillance system transitioned from reporting only foodborne disease outbreaks to reporting all enteric disease outbreaks.
Maho Imanishi +3 more
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Traits and risk factors of post-disaster infectious disease outbreaks: a systematic review
Scientific Reports, 2021 Infectious disease outbreaks are increasingly recognised as events that exacerbate impacts or prolong recovery following disasters. Yet, our understanding of the frequency, geography, characteristics and risk factors of post-disaster disease outbreaks ...
Gina E. C. Charnley +3 more
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Size of Outbreaks Near the Epidemic Threshold [PDF]
Phys. Rev. E 69, 050901R (2004), 2004 The spread of infectious diseases near the epidemic threshold is investigated. Scaling laws for the size and the duration of outbreaks originating from a single infected individual in a large susceptible population are obtained. The maximal size of an outbreak n_* scales as N^{2/3} with N the population size.
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Epidemiological analysis and prevention strategies in response to a shigellosis cluster outbreak: a retrospective case series in an alternative school in the Republic of Korea, 2023 [PDF]
Osong Public Health and Research PerspectivesObjectives In March 2023, an alternative school in the Republic of Korea reported 12 cases of shigellosis. This study aims to analyze the epidemiological characteristics in order to determine the cause of the cluster outbreak of shigellosis and to ...
Yeongseo Ahn +8 more
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Investigating the Relationship Between World Development Indicators and the Occurrence of Disease Outbreaks in the 21st Century: A Case Study [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The timely identification of socio-economic sectors vulnerable to a disease outbreak presents an important challenge to the civic authorities and healthcare workers interested in outbreak mitigation measures. This problem was traditionally solved by studying the aberrances in small-scale healthcare data. In this paper, we leverage data driven models to
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