Kidney disease takes a growing toll Nov 19, 2008
" Concerned about the emerging picture, federal health officials have started pilot programs to bolster public awareness, increase epidemiologic surveillance and expand efforts to screen those most at risk people with high blood pressure, diabetes or a family history of kidney disease. Those people, and those who already have the disease, can often be helped by the same kinds of medicine and lifestyle changes used in hypertension and diabetes. They are urged to quit smoking, lose weight,... (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Burkina Faso: Meningitis Epidemics in Vaccinated Areas Apr 11, 2008
"[Health researchers] are currently collecting information so as to identify the factors explaining the recurrence of the epidemic in districts where populations have been vaccinated", Ousmane Badolo, head of the epidemiologic surveillance department at the ministry of health, told IRIN.. Vaccination campaigns target people between 2 to 30 years old; according to the ministry of health, 80 to 90 percent of the victims of meningitis belong to that age group. (allAfrica.com)
How Noroviruses Cause Repeated Outbreaks Of 'Stomach Flu' Feb 14, 2008
This continuing evolution of new replacement strains suggests that vaccines could be designed to protect against norovirus infection, but that, as with influenza vaccines, ongoing epidemiologic surveillance and reformulations of norovirus vaccines will be needed. In a related perspective article, Ben Lopman and colleagues at the UK Health Protection Agency, who were not involved in the study, discuss the evolution of noroviruses and the implications of this research for the control of future... (Science Daily)
Homeland Security Presidential Directive Oct 19, 2007
(c) The term epidemiologic surveillance means the process of actively gathering and analyzing data related to human health and disease in a population in order to obtain early warning of human health events, rapid characterization of human disease events, and overall situational awareness of disease activity in the human population ... A central element of biosurveillance must be an epidemiologic surveillance system to monitor human disease activity across populations ... (21) The Secretary of... (White House News Releases)
Burkina Faso: Appeal for Help to Fight Meningitis Feb 25, 2007
Health authorities have been trained for epidemiologic surveillance. Relevant Links. (allAfrica.com)
