Sentences with phrase «public health surveillance officials»

These so - called Novel Data Streams (NDS) are very appealing to public health surveillance officials due to their ease of collection.

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To educate pork producers about this surveillance plan, direct mailings and other communications have been sent to more than 67,000 producers and to all state animal health officials and public health veterinarians.

Surveillance by public health officials has already identified viruses containing one or more of the required mutations from fowl in Egypt and some Asian countries.

Word first spread of hundreds of children dying in Nigeria's Zamfara state in early 2010, when the deaths were discovered during meningitis surveillance by the international humanitarian group Médecins Sans Frontières and Nigerian public health officials.

Combined, these models give public health and governmental officials vital climate information needed to create early warning systems — systems that can alert the public to the risk for disease and allow public health officials to mobilize resources and enact mosquito control programs and surveillance ahead of peak season.

He has long advocated global cooperation in the surveillance of circulating flu viruses to spot emerging new strains so public health officials could plan a response and drug companies could get a head start in making vaccines.

The World Health Organization urges countries to augment their official disease surveillance efforts — which draw information from networks of doctor's offices, hospitals, and public health laboratories — with what's known as «event - based surveillance,» said Dr. Larry Madoff, editor of ProMED, the Program for Monitoring Emerging DisHealth Organization urges countries to augment their official disease surveillance efforts — which draw information from networks of doctor's offices, hospitals, and public health laboratories — with what's known as «event - based surveillance,» said Dr. Larry Madoff, editor of ProMED, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Dishealth laboratories — with what's known as «event - based surveillance,» said Dr. Larry Madoff, editor of ProMED, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases.

In March, HealthMap.org, a disease surveillance website that aggregates reports from social media, news websites, and public health officials, shared a link from a French language news website in Guinea reporting eight deaths from a mystery illness that appeared similar to Lassa fever.

(i) A public health authority that is authorized by law to collect or receive such information for the purpose of preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability, including, but not limited to, the reporting of disease, injury, vital events such as birth or death, and the conduct of public health surveillance, public health investigations, and public health interventions; or, at the direction of a public health authority, to an official of a foreign government agency that is acting in collaboration with a public health authority;