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Cancer registry extensive, but less information about other illnesses
Baltimore Sun, United States -
"Asthma and heart disease are things we are just beginning to get a handle on." Cancer registries contain information on the age, race, gender, ...
Actor Amanda Peet Joins With Every Child By Two and the American ...
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The United States is now facing its largest measles outbreak since 1997. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 132 people have ...

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Global fight against AIDS gets tough
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About 20000 scientists, policymakers and grassroots workers will deliberate ways to check the spread of the disease. "We need to help poor countries to ...
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New York Dairy Stops Sales After Listeria Found in Another Raw ...
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), raw milk or raw milk products were implicated in 45 food-borne illness outbreaks that ...

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ECDC calls for review of infection control measures
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The ECDC is an EU agency specifically tasked with identifying, assessing and communicating threats to human health posed by infectious diseases. Outbreaks ...
Meningitis vaccinations urged
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By Helen Altonn Isle students heading to college for their freshman year are advised to be vaccinated for meningococcal meningitis, a contagious disease ...
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UK government report calls for strong international leadership to ...
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However, for that to be effective it is vital that there is sufficient surveillance of disease outbreaks to limit their spread.? The committee chose not to ...
Hospital alert after virulent new strain of bug is found
Irish Times, Ireland - Aug 1, 2008
"ECDC has recognised this emerging new disease and undertaken several actions to inform all EU member states," Zsuzsanna Jakab, the director of the European ...
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Emerging Marine Diseases--Climate Links and Anthropogenic Factors -
CD Harvell, K Kim, JM Burkholder, RR Colwell, PR … - Science, 1999 - sciencemag.org
... Mass mortalities due to disease outbreaks have recently affected major taxa in the ...
of the frequency of epidemics and the number of new diseases have increased ...

Surveillance for Foodborne Disease OutbreaksUnited States, 19881992 -
NH Bean, JS Goulding, MT Daniels, FJ Angulo - Journal of Food Protection, 1997 - ingentaconnect.com
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concerning the occurrence and causes of foodborne disease outbreaks (FBDOs) are ...

An apparently new disease of chickens-avian nephrosis
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disease." The term ... has been applied to this new disease because of the ...

Slim disease: a new disease in Uganda and its association with HTLV-III infection. -
D Serwadda, RD Mugerwa, NK Sewankambo, A Lwegaba, … - Lancet, 1985 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Slim disease: a new disease in Uganda and its association with HTLV-III infection. ...
A new disease has recently been recognised in rural Uganda. ...

The Outbreak of West Nile Virus Infection in the New York City Area in 1999 -
D Nash, F Mostashari, A Fine, J Miller, DO'Leary, … - The New England Journal of Medicine, 2001 - nejm.org
... 9 This report summarizes the findings of an epidemiologic investigation of the 1999
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Outbreak of Legionnaires' disease among cruise ship passengers exposed to a contaminated whirlpool … -
DB Jernigan, J Hofmann, MS Cetron, CA Genese, JP … - Lancet, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Legionnaires' disease (pneumonia of ... the ship's water source in New York City ...

Food-Related Illness and Death in the United States. -
PS Mead, L Slutsker, V Dietz, LF Mccaig, JS Bresee … - Journal of Environmental Health, 2000 - questia.com
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Global Climate and Infectious Disease: The Cholera Paradigm* -
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... Reports of disease outbreaks have been more frequent during the past few years.
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Factors in the emergence of infectious diseases -
SS Morse? - Emerg Infect Dis, 1995 - cdc.gov
... Medical settings are also at the front line of exposure to new diseases, and a ... care
settings (Table 2). Among the numerous examples, in the outbreaks of Ebola ...

Outbreak of W 135 Meningococcal Disease in 2000: Not Emergence of a New W 135 Strain but Clonal … -
LW Mayer, MW Reeves, N Al-Hamdan, CT Sacchi, MK … - Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2002 - UChicago Press
... Outbreak of W135 Meningococcal Disease in 2000: Not Emergence of a New W135 Strain
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New Software To Aid Early Detection of Infectious Disease Outbreaks

A newly released software program will let health authorities at the site of an infectious disease outbreak quickly analyze data, speeding the detection of new cases and the implementation of effective interventions.

The program, called TranStat, was developed by a team of epidemiologists and computer scientists from the Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS), an international program supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to build computational models for studying disease spread.

“A main goal of MIDAS is to make the models developed by the researchers available to the public health community and policymakers,” said Jeremy M. Berg, Ph.D., director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the NIH component that funds MIDAS. “TranStat is a great example of how MIDAS is providing tools to help communities prepare for emerging infectious disease outbreaks.”

Available for free and downloadable at http://www.midasmodels.org, TranStat can be used by public health officials to systematically enter and store infectious disease data. These data include details about the infected individuals, such as their sex, age, and onset of symptoms; their close contacts; and any interventions they might have received. The program also prompts the field personnel to enter details about exposed but uninfected individuals. The system does not collect names or other personally identifying information.

The computer program uses this information to statistically determine the probability that people contracted the disease from each other, a driving factor in the spread of infections. TranStat also estimates in real time the average number of people an individual could infect and the rate at which that infection occurs in a particular setting. This information can help health officials develop and swiftly implement strategies that thwart further spread while they conduct additional studies.

"We've made TranStat portable and easy to use, so field officers can enter, edit, and analyze data as an outbreak progresses," said Diane Wagener, Ph.D., a program manager at RTI International, an independent, nonprofit research organization in Research Triangle Park, N.C., which helped develop the user interface.

Ira Longini, Ph.D., a biostatistician at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington in Seattle, directed the research behind TranStat. He and his research team have used the underlying methods and software to determine that the H5N1 avian flu virus probably spread between members of an extended family in Indonesia in 2006. According to the results published in the September 2007 issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, the transmission was not sustained.

“The faster we learn about emerging infectious diseases and their characteristics, the quicker we can contain and mitigate them,” said Longini. “TranStat will help us do this by standardizing data collection and analysis.”

Future software enhancements that will allow field personnel to enter more refined data about the affected population and their social networks are under way.

To learn more about MIDAS, visit http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Initiatives/MIDAS/ or contact the NIGMS Office of Communications and Public Liaison at 301-496-7301.

NIGMS (http://www.nigms.nih.gov) supports basic biomedical research that is the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH)--The Nation's Medical Research Agency--includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov.
 
 
 
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