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Epidemiology of Gun Violence in Pennsylvania [PDF]

, 2018
Raynard Washington, PhD, MPH, is the Chief Epidemiologist at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. In this role, Dr. Washington is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data that provides actionable information on the health ...
Washington, PhD, MPH, Raynard
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Gender differences in responses to an altruistic message regarding rubella vaccination

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundThe supplementary immunization activity (SIA) for the rubella vaccination of adult men born between 1962 and 1978 began in 2019 in Japan because of a vaccine gap in the cohort, as vaccination was not mandatory for those born in that period ...
Hideo Okuno, Hideo Okuno, Hiroshi Satoh, Satoru Arai, Motoi Suzuki, Toshiko Kikkawa   +5 more
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Health surveillance, biosafety and emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases in Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2010
The present paper presents compulsory notification data for infectious diseases and epidemiologic ones recorded at the Center for Strategic Information and Health Surveillance (CIEVS) for the period of March 2006 to April 2007.
Telma Abdalla de Oliveira Cardoso, Marli B.M. de Albuquerque Navarro, Cristina Costa Neto, Josino Costa Moreira   +3 more
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Building capacities in Caribbean animal health in the : The VEP (Veterinary Epidemiologist / Para-Epidemiologist) Project [PDF]

, 2012
Disease surveillance and control within the Caribbean has historically been difficult. The region is made up of over 31 countries, territories, and protectorates, with concomitant differences in language, culture, and historical experiences.
Delgado, Amy, Faverjon, Céline, Gongora, Victor, Hackshaw, Katian, Lefrançois, Thierry, Pradel, Jennifer, Shaw, J.   +6 more
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Norovirus Surveillance: An Epidemiological Perspective [PDF]

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016
Surveillance for norovirus is challenging because the nature of illness due to norovirus is such that the majority of people who are infected will not have any contact with medical services and are highly unlikely to have a sample collected for diagnosis.
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The Role of Wild Boar as Host of Japanese Encephalitis Virus in the Absence of Domestic Pigs

Viruses
Pigs are the most common amplifying hosts of the Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV). In 2016, four residents on Tsushima Island who did not own pig farms were diagnosed with JE. Therefore, a serosurvey was conducted to estimate the risk and seroprevalence
Fuka Kikuchi, Ai Hayashi, Karen Yamada, Yusuke Matsui, Reiko Shimbashi, Yuji Noguchi, Kazunori Tachibana, Tetsuya Mizutani, Akihiko Tokaji, Akira Yoshikawa, Motoki Ihara, Kazunori Oishi, Hajime Kamiya, Satoru Arai, Motoi Suzuki   +14 more
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Evaluation of rotavirus enhanced epidemiologic surveillance

Revista Brasileira em Promoção da Saúde, 2014
Objective: To assess the practices of Rotavirus surveillance, identifying the positive aspects and the difficulties found through the evaluation model from the Enhanced Surveillance of Rotavirus Diarrheal Diseases.
Robson Bruniera Oliveira, Marco Aurélio Pereira Horta, José Fernando Verani   +2 more
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Identifying the population susceptible to rubella in Japan, 2020: Fine-scale risk mapping

Journal of Infection and Public Health
Background: Rubella remains a public health challenge in Japan, impeding the attainment of herd immunity. Despite vaccination efforts since 1976, persistent outbreaks reveal a susceptibility gap in male adults born before 1995.
Ryo Kinoshita, Satoru Arai, Motoi Suzuki, Hiroshi Nishiura   +3 more
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Acute flaccid paralysis with anterior myelitis - California, June 2012-June 2014. [PDF]

, 2014
In August 2012, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) was contacted by a San Francisco Bay area clinician who requested poliovirus testing for an unvaccinated man aged 29 years with acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) associated with anterior ...
Ayscue, Patrick, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Clayton, Anna, Feikin, Daniel, Glaser, Carol, Harriman, Kathleen, Nix, William Allan, Padilla, Tasha, Pan, Chao, Reichel, John, Sejvar, James, Sheriff, Heather, Van Haren, Keith, Waldron, Paul, Watt, James, Waubant, Emmanuelle, Yagi, Shigeo, Yen, Cynthia   +17 more
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The Potential Trajectory of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae, an Emerging Threat to Health-Care Facilities, and the Impact of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Toolkit. [PDF]

, 2016
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), a group of pathogens resistant to most antibiotics and associated with high mortality, are a rising emerging public health threat.
Bartsch, Sarah M, Cao, Chenghua, Huang, Susan S, Jernigan, John A, Kallen, Alexander J, Kim, Diane S, Lee, Bruce Y, McKinnell, James A, Miller, Loren G, Slayton, Rachel B, Wong, Kim F   +10 more
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