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Online Tools Aid In Early Disease Outbreak Identification
Colleagues,
As reported in Medical News Today ... The Internet is revolutionizing infectious disease surveillance, providing timely, low-cost online resources for public health officials to detect disease outbreaks. An analysis in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) of web-based disease surveillance of the recent Listeriosis outbreak in Canada demonstrates there may have been an early signal of the outbreak on the Internet prior to the official announcement click here for further information.
Rapidly identifying an infectious disease outbreak is crucial to reduce the spread of disease and to alert the public and neighbouring regions. Information sources, such as chat rooms, search terms, blogs, news feeds and other real-time sources are often capable of detecting the first evidence of outbreaks.
"Because web-based data sources exist outside traditional reporting channels, they are invaluable to public health agencies that depend on timely information flow across national and sub-national borders," write Dr. Kumanan Wilson, Ottawa Health Research Institute and Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, and Dr. John Brownstein of Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School.
The World Health Organization relies on web-based data sources for daily disease surveillance. Tools such as the Global Public Health Intelligence Network, developed by Health Canada, and Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases are used by public health officials. HealthMap (http://www.healthmap.org) is a free, real-time system that maps reports on emerging diseases across the globe. Applications such as Google Flu Trends, which examine trends in search terms that correlate with disease, represent an emerging new area of surveillance.
Read on at: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/142400.php
ENJOY!
CC
As reported in Medical News Today ... The Internet is revolutionizing infectious disease surveillance, providing timely, low-cost online resources for public health officials to detect disease outbreaks. An analysis in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) of web-based disease surveillance of the recent Listeriosis outbreak in Canada demonstrates there may have been an early signal of the outbreak on the Internet prior to the official announcement click here for further information.
Rapidly identifying an infectious disease outbreak is crucial to reduce the spread of disease and to alert the public and neighbouring regions. Information sources, such as chat rooms, search terms, blogs, news feeds and other real-time sources are often capable of detecting the first evidence of outbreaks.
"Because web-based data sources exist outside traditional reporting channels, they are invaluable to public health agencies that depend on timely information flow across national and sub-national borders," write Dr. Kumanan Wilson, Ottawa Health Research Institute and Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, and Dr. John Brownstein of Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School.
The World Health Organization relies on web-based data sources for daily disease surveillance. Tools such as the Global Public Health Intelligence Network, developed by Health Canada, and Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases are used by public health officials. HealthMap (http://www.healthmap.org) is a free, real-time system that maps reports on emerging diseases across the globe. Applications such as Google Flu Trends, which examine trends in search terms that correlate with disease, represent an emerging new area of surveillance.
Read on at: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/142400.php
ENJOY!
CC
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