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Innovation in observation: a vision for early outbreak detection

The emergence of new infections and resurgence of old ones—health threats stemming from environmental contamination or purposeful acts of bioterrorism—call for a worldwide effort in improving early outbreak detection, with the goal of ameliorating current and future risks. In some cases, the problem...

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Autores principales: Fefferman, NH, Naumova, EN
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: CoAction Publishing 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3167656/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22460396
http://dx.doi.org/10.3134/ehtj.10.006
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description The emergence of new infections and resurgence of old ones—health threats stemming from environmental contamination or purposeful acts of bioterrorism—call for a worldwide effort in improving early outbreak detection, with the goal of ameliorating current and future risks. In some cases, the problem of outbreak detection is logistically straightforward and mathematically easy: a single case of a disease of great concern can constitute an outbreak. However, for the vast majority of maladies, a simple analytical solution does not exist. Furthermore, each step in developing reliable, sensitive, effective surveillance systems demonstrates enormous complexities in the transmission, manifestation, detection, and control of emerging health threats. In this communication, we explore potential future innovations in early outbreak detection systems that can overcome the pitfalls of current surveillance. We believe that modern advances in assembling data, techniques for collating and processing information, and technology that enables integrated analysis will facilitate a new paradigm in outbreak definition and detection. We anticipate that moving forward in this direction will provide the highly desired sensitivity and specificity in early detection required to meet the emerging challenges of global disease surveillance.
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spelling pubmed-31676562011-09-07 Innovation in observation: a vision for early outbreak detection Fefferman, NH Naumova, EN Emerg Health Threats J Perspectives The emergence of new infections and resurgence of old ones—health threats stemming from environmental contamination or purposeful acts of bioterrorism—call for a worldwide effort in improving early outbreak detection, with the goal of ameliorating current and future risks. In some cases, the problem of outbreak detection is logistically straightforward and mathematically easy: a single case of a disease of great concern can constitute an outbreak. However, for the vast majority of maladies, a simple analytical solution does not exist. Furthermore, each step in developing reliable, sensitive, effective surveillance systems demonstrates enormous complexities in the transmission, manifestation, detection, and control of emerging health threats. In this communication, we explore potential future innovations in early outbreak detection systems that can overcome the pitfalls of current surveillance. We believe that modern advances in assembling data, techniques for collating and processing information, and technology that enables integrated analysis will facilitate a new paradigm in outbreak definition and detection. We anticipate that moving forward in this direction will provide the highly desired sensitivity and specificity in early detection required to meet the emerging challenges of global disease surveillance. CoAction Publishing 2010-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3167656/ /pubmed/22460396 http://dx.doi.org/10.3134/ehtj.10.006 Text en © 2010 NH Fefferman and EN Naumova; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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