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Viruses in sanctuary chimpanzees across Africa
American Journal of Primatology, Volume 85, Issue 1, January 2023., 2023 Abstract Infectious disease is a major concern for both wild and captive primate populations. Primate sanctuaries in Africa provide critical protection to thousands of wild‐born, orphan primates confiscated from the bushmeat and pet trades. However, uncertainty about the infectious agents these individuals potentially harbor has important implications ...
Emily Dunay +9 more
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Modeling rapidly disseminating infectious disease during mass gatherings
BMC Medicine, 2012 We discuss models for rapidly disseminating infectious diseases during mass gatherings (MGs), using influenza as a case study. Recent innovations in modeling and forecasting influenza transmission dynamics at local, regional, and global scales have made ...
Chowell Gerardo +2 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
R. Dudfield, F. A. Bainbridge
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2021 Background: Chagas disease (CD), caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is considered a public health problem in Latin America. In Colombia, it affects more than 437,000 inhabitants, mainly in Casanare, an endemic region with eco-epidemiological ...
Claudia Yaneth Rincón-Acevedo +8 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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Frontiers in MicrobiologyIntroductionShotgun metagenomics has previously proven effective in the investigation of foodborne outbreaks by providing rapid and comprehensive insights into the microbial contaminant.
Florence E. Buytaers +8 more
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A three-state coupled Markov switching model for COVID-19 outbreaks across Quebec based on hospital admissions [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Recurrent COVID-19 outbreaks have placed immense strain on the hospital system in Quebec. We develop a Bayesian three-state coupled Markov switching model to analyze COVID-19 outbreaks across Quebec based on admissions in the 30 largest hospitals. Within each catchment area, we assume the existence of three states for the disease: absence, a new state ...
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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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Magnetic outbreak associated with exploding granulations [PDF]
, 2022 Diagnosing the spatial-temporal pattern of magnetic flux on the Sun is vital for understanding the origin of solar magnetism and activity. Here, we report a new form of flux appearance, magnetic outbreak, using observations with an extremely high spatial resolution of 0.16 arcsec from the 1.6-m Goode Solar Telescope (GST) at the Big Bear Solar ...
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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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