Focuses on a surveillance system for collecting and reporting data relating to occurrences and causes of waterborne-disease outbreaks in the United States (US) from 1995 to 1996. US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations for drinking water; Classification of outbreaks; Outbreaks associated ...
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Within the US, data on livestock movement is not sufficient for direct parameterization of disease models, but network models that assimilate limited data provide a path forward in model development to inform preparedness for disease outbreaks in the US. Here, we report on a novel data stream, ...
Some lessons from studies of legionnaires' disease in Scotland are pertinent to concerns fuelled by outbreaks in England this summer.In Glasgow a survey conducted after two outbreaks, including the largest in the United Kingdom up to 1984, showed up difficulties in maintaining an accurate register ...
ofEscherichia colilinked to the leafy greens — the second this year. As Thanksgiving approaches, it is one ofseveral foodborne disease outbreaksbeing investigated by health officials in the United States, including two separate multistate outbreaks of...
These case study outbreaks support hypotheses that we see quicker responses for novel diseases when outbreaks do not coincide with holidays and when US citizens are infected. They do not support hypotheses that we see quicker responses for more severe outbreaks or those that threaten larger numbers ...
In the United States,leprosyhas been entrenched for more than a century in parts of the South where people came into contact with armadillos, the principle proven linkage from animal to humans. However, the more recent outbreaks in the Southeast,especially Florida, have not been associated with...
For cholera, case fatality rates were lowest around 10-24 years in a number of datasets (Supplementary Figure S18)75,76, but mortality rates in the large 19th century waterborne outbreaks, in which all age groups would have been exposed, were lowest at 5-14 years88,89. For Lassa fever,...
Infectious disease outbreaks recapitulate biology: they emerge from the multi-level interaction of hosts, pathogens, and environment. Therefore, outbreak forecasting requires an integrative approach to modeling. While specific components of outbreaks are
An Opportunistic Assessment of the Impact of Squirrelpox Disease Outbreaks upon a Red Squirrel Population Sympatric with Grey Squirrels in Wales. Animals 2022, 12, 99. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Vengušt, G.; Kuhar, U.; Jerina, K.; Švara, T.; Gombač, M.; Bandelj, P.; Ven...