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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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Outbreaks of salmonellosis [PDF]

BMJ, 1996
Knowing the serotype of a salmonella does not help in the treatment or prognosis of a case, nor is infection with different serotypes distinguishable clinically: all serotypes can cause serious disease, including septicaemia.1 Why then is it important for almost all 30 000 or so salmonellas reported annually to Britain's Public Health Laboratory ...
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Improving the performance of outbreak detection algorithms by classifying the levels of disease incidence [PDF]

, 2013
We evaluated a novel strategy to improve the performance of outbreak detection algorithms, namely setting the alerting threshold separately in each region according to the disease incidence in that region. By using data on hand, foot and mouth disease in
Dinglun Zhou, Wang, Liping, Yang, Weizhong, David L Buckeridge, Dan Zhao, David L. Buckeridge, Zhao, Dan, Shengjie Lai, Zhou, Dinglun, Li, Zhongjie, Zhongjie Li, Lan, Yajia, Lai, Shengjie, Weizhong Yang, Buckeridge, David L, Yajia Lan, Zhang, Honglong, Liping Wang, Honglong Zhang   +18 more
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An Outbreak of Dysentery [PDF]

Journal of Hygiene, 1911
On February 10th, 1911, the attention of the Medical Officer of Health was called by the practitioner in charge to an outbreak of diarrhoea in a family named R. residing in Paddington. The note made at the interview was to the effect that cases had occurred on the 8th, 9th, and 10th (2 cases) of the month, the four patients having violent diarrhoea and
F A, Bainbridge, R, Dudfield
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Molecular epidemiology of Coxiella burnetii from ruminants in Q fever outbreak, the Netherlands. [PDF]

, 2011
Q fever is a zoonosis caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii. One of the largest reported outbreaks of Q fever in humans occurred in the Netherlands starting in 2007; epidemiologic investigations identified small ruminants as the source.
Rob Buijs, Willemsen, P.T.J., Albert G. de Boer, Wouda, W., Willem Wouda, Corné H.W. Klaassen, Daan Dercksen, Spek, A.N., Van der, Van den Brom, R., Robin C. Ruuls, Ruuls, R.C., Fred G. van Zijderveld, Nabuurs-Fransen, M.H., Tilburg, J.H.H.C., Dercksen, D., Klaassen, C.H.W., Buijs, R., Vellema, P., Marrigje H. Nabuurs-Franssen, Arco N. van der Spek, Spierenburg, M., René van den Brom, Peter Th.J. Willemsen, Roest, H.I.J., Van der Spek, A.N., Brom, R., Van den, Jeroen J.H.C. Tilburg, Piet Vellema, Hendrik I.J. Roest, Marcel A.H. Spierenburg   +29 more
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AN OUTBREAK OF BOTULISM [PDF]

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1920
The outbreak of botulism reported here occurred in January, 1920, in an Italian family, living in the Bronx, New York City. The source of the toxin was shown to be a glass jar of factory packed California ripe olives. These olives, consumed as such and also as part of a salad, caused the death of six of the seven members of the family who ate of them ...
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Correlation between wastewater and COVID-19 case incidence rates in major California sewersheds across three variant periods

Journal of Water and Health, 2023
Monitoring for COVID-19 through wastewater has been used for adjunctive public health surveillance, with SARS-CoV-2 viral concentrations in wastewater correlating with incident cases in the same sewershed.
Angela Rabe, Sindhu Ravuri, Elisabeth Burnor, Joshua A. Steele, Rose S. Kantor, Samuel Choi, Stanislav Forman, Ryan Batjiaka, Seema Jain, Tomás M. León, Duc J. Vugia, Alexander T. Yu   +11 more
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THE CASE FOR COLLECTING, ANALYSING AND UTILISING SEXDISAGGREGATED DATA AND GENDERED DATA TO INFORM OUTBREAK RESPONSES, A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE FROM 2012-2022

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023
Intro: Understanding sex-related differences and gendered roles in outbreak dynamics is critical to deliver an effective response. Despite existing recommendations and minimum requirements, collection, analysis, and use of sex-disaggregated data and ...
M. Gales, E. Yonally Phillips, S. Heidari, L. Zilversmit Pao, M.-A. Degail, C. Dubray, M. Meudec, C. Rodriguez Ribas, M.R. Siddiqui, S. Carter   +9 more
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An assessment of the geographical risks of wild and vaccine-derived poliomyelitis outbreaks in Africa and Asia

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017
Background The international spread of wild poliomyelitis outbreaks continues to threaten eradication of poliomyelitis and in 2014 a public health emergency of international concern was declared.
Kathleen M. O’Reilly, Christine Lamoureux, Natalie A. Molodecky, Hil Lyons, Nicholas C. Grassly, Graham Tallis   +5 more
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Make science evolve into a One Health approach to improve health and security: a white paper

One Health Outlook, 2020
The World One Health Congresses are biennial gatherings of approximately 1500 professionals from relevant international organisations, OIE, FAO, WHO, World Bank, leading scientific experts and researchers in the field of One Health, animal production and
Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus, Chris Vanlangendonck, Maurizio Barbeschi, Christianne J. M. Bruschke, Renee Christensen, Peter Daszak, Frouke de Groot, Peter Doherty, Patrick Drury, Sabri Gmacz, Keith Hamilton, John Hart, Rebecca Katz, Christophe Longuet, Jesse McLeay, Gaetano Morelli, Joergen Schlundt, Trevor Smith, Sameera Suri, Khristeen Umali, Jan van Aken, Jaap A. Wagenaar   +21 more
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