The 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV): Novel Virus, Old Challenges
Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2020 N/a.
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Temporal Topic Modeling to Assess Associations between News Trends and Infectious Disease Outbreaks [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 In retrospective assessments, internet news reports have been shown to capture early reports of unknown infectious disease transmission prior to official laboratory confirmation. In general, media interest and reporting peaks and wanes during the course of an outbreak.
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Predictors of disease outbreaks at continentalscale in the African region: Insights and predictions with geospatial artificial intelligence using earth observations and routine disease surveillance data [PDF]
DIGITAL HEALTH. 2024;10Objectives: Our research adopts computational techniques to analyze disease outbreaks weekly over a large geographic area while maintaining local-level analysis by incorporating relevant high-spatial resolution cultural and environmental datasets.
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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.
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Trends and future prediction of livestock diseases outbreaks by periodic regression analysis
Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2019 Livestock disease outbreaks become a burden to the animal husbandry farmers and cause great economic loss in India. Period regression analysis is used to find the periodic or cyclic character of livestock disease outbreaks in animals, as many other ...
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Supervised learning improves disease outbreak detection [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 The early detection of infectious disease outbreaks is a crucial task to protect population health. To this end, public health surveillance systems have been established to systematically collect and analyse infectious disease data. A variety of statistical tools are available, which detect potential outbreaks as abberations from an expected endemic ...
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Meningococcal disease during the Hajj and Umrah mass gatherings
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016 The Hajj and Umrah religious mass gatherings hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia can facilitate the transmission of infectious diseases. The pilgrimages have been associated with a number of local and international outbreaks of meningococcal disease ...
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Get the News Out Loudly and Quickly: Modeling the Influence of the Media on Limiting Infectious Disease Outbreaks [PDF]
arXiv, 2010 During outbreaks of serious infectious diseases many individuals closely follow media reports of the outbreak and take steps, including self-isolation, to protect themselves from infection and possibly death. Self-isolation can take many forms including restricting local and long-distance travel, using face masks, and choosing to receive a vaccine.
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Conducting research in disease outbreaks. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2009 Ruth Macklin, Ethan Cowan
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Reemergence of Foot-and-Mouth Disease, South Korea, 2000–2011
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014 Five outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease have occurred in South Korea during 2000–2011. Macro-analysis of these outbreaks showed a correlation with outbreaks in countries in eastern Asia.
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