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Waterborne Disease Outbreaks, 1986–1988
Journal of Food Protection, 1991 From 1986 to 1988, 24 states and Puerto Rico reported 50 outbreaks of illness due to water that people intended to drink, affecting 25,846 persons. The protozoal parasite Giardia lamblia was the agent most commonly implicated in outbreaks, as it has been for the last 10 years; many of these outbreaks were associated with ingestion of chlorinated but ...
William C, Levine +2 more
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Early warning signals in plant disease outbreaks [PDF]
, 2018 Infectious disease outbreaks in plants threaten ecosystems, agricultural crops and food trade. Currently, several fungal diseases are affecting forests worldwide, posing a major risk to tree species, habitats and consequently ecosystem decay.
Baggaley, A.W. +6 more
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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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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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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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Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023 This paper is being written at a time when the recent pandemic, namely COVID-19, has shaken the entire world in a manner that has never been seen in modern history.
Roland Ngom +8 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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Real-time decision-making during emergency disease outbreaks. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2018 In the event of a new infectious disease outbreak, mathematical and simulation models are commonly used to inform policy by evaluating which control strategies will minimize the impact of the epidemic.
William J M Probert +10 more
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Should outbreak response immunization be recommended for measles outbreaks in middle- and low-income countries? An update. [PDF]
, 2011 Measles caused mortality in >164,000 children in 2008, with most deaths occurring during outbreaks. Nonetheless, the impact and desirability of conducting measles outbreak response immunization (ORI) in middle- and low-income countries has been ...
Al Wahaibi +60 more
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Spatial expansions and travelling waves of rabies in vampire bats [PDF]
, 2016 A major obstacle to anticipating the cross-species transmission of zoonotic diseases and developing novel strategies for their control is the scarcity of data informing how these pathogens circulate within natural reservoir populations.
Benavides, Julio A. +2 more
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