"Our rapid detection of outbreaks and distribution of antibiotics prevented disease and possibly saved some lives".
Boston is also expanding a system to monitor information about emergency room visits for early detection of outbreaks.
Because it focuses on symptoms of patients seeking emergency care, delays in the detection of outbreaks could be cut significantly.
Despite some initial doubt among researchers about the project's feasibility, PulseNet has proved highly effective in the early detection of outbreaks since its 1998 launch.
Mainly, two-factor interactions with probability of detection were significant thus emphasising the impact of a rapid detection of outbreaks.
Spatio-temporal surveillance methods are less commonly described in relation to detection of outbreaks in motor vehicle crashes.
However, recognition of wildlife hosts for zoonotic pathogens is important for evaluating pathogen evolution within wildlife reservoir populations, advancing early detection of outbreaks through identification of sentinel species, mitigating risk at animal human interfaces, and monitoring threats that zoonotic pathogens might pose to wildlife6.
This new system integrated early detection of outbreaks (particularly in hospitals and schools), epidemiological investigation, and epidemiologically based public health prevention and control policies.
This agglomeration of cases is necessary since the notion of early detection of outbreaks of a chronic disease, such as TB, with long incubation period [20] requires a longer time scale.
This not only allows monitoring of clinical syndromes before laboratory diagnoses have been made, but also allows detection of outbreaks of diseases for which no diagnostics were requested or available (including emerging pathogens).
Detection of outbreaks is an important part of disease surveillance.
