due to factors such as disease importation, parental decisions to withhold or delay vaccination, and waning vaccine-induced immunity. In 2014, US outbreaks of measles, largely associated with travel, have resulted in the largest number of cases since the disease was declared eliminated in the Unite...
The United States has to do more to boost its ability to prevent and control infectious disease outbreaks, according to the third annual report card, released today, on the nation's infectious disease preparedness. More than half of states (28) received a score of five or fewer of 10 key ...
Infectious disease outbreaks in nursing homesPujol, M
and Ebola has raised attention to serious gaps in our ability to manage disease outbreaks and contain their spread. It was very disturbing that many of the most basic infectious disease controls failed when tested," he said.
of infectious disease are detected and to describe the entities and information systems that together function to identify outbreaks in the U.S., the authors drew on multiple sources of information to create a description of existing surveillance systems and how they interact to detect outbreaks. T...
Infectious diseases, from antibiotic-resistant superbugs to Salmonella to the seasonal flu, disrupt lives and communities and cost the country more than $120 billion each year.GatesLevi J, et al. Outbreaks: protecting Americans from infec tious diseases. Trust for America's Health; Robert Wood...
Objective To study epidemiological characteristics and regularity of outbreaks of infectious diseases in schools and Kindergartens in Shenzhen City, and provide the scientific evidence for the prevention and control of disease. Methods Descriptive epidemiology analysis was used to analyze the data of the ...
Amid an uptick in measles cases and outbreaks both in the US and abroad, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an alert on March
This change is reflected in China's effective control of H1N1, H5N1, and H7N9 influenza outbreaks; response to imported cases of Zika virus infection, Rift Valley fever, and Yellow fever; and China's active involvement in the fight against Ebola virus disease in west Africa in 2014. After ...
In this review of 66 outbreaks of infectious disease in schools in England and Wales between 1979u201388, 27 were reported from independent and 39 from maintained schools. Altogether, over 8000 children and nearly 500 adults were affected. Most of the outbreaks investigated were due to gastrointest...