We hope to get disease reporting online, almost in real time, so that we can better recognize outbreaks.
He proposed training doctors to recognize outbreaks caused by biological agents, creating a centralized state bioterror response unit, increasing supplies of antibiotics at hospitals, and accelerating production of vaccines.
Because malware will appear in forms that even a company's Internet-hosted database doesn't recognize, outbreaks will still occur even among "protected" computers, he says.
In order to rapidly recognize outbreaks of new IV strains with increased pathogenicity, efficient surveillance is necessary, which is able to detect all IV subtypes, not only the epidemically most relevant ones.
Training helps local public health professionals recognize outbreaks and maintain skills and knowledge needed to respond appropriately.
As in contained epidemics of hemorrhagic fevers, the immense threat of high contagion and lethality prompts effective measures to rapidly recognize outbreaks and prevent pandemics.
While all countries in the network now have the diagnostic capability to recognize outbreaks of NV, the structure of their national surveillance differs and therefore, so do the epidemiologic data collected on viral gastroenteritis (10, 13 ).
However, because the adaptation of time-series methods to recognize outbreaks will be an ongoing need, the enhanced methods identified by this study are likely to have lasting usefulness.
In a joint effort by WHO and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, rapid outbreak response teams are being trained in sub-Saharan African countries to recognize outbreaks, collect information and specimens, and implement quarantine measures, if indicated, while using and distributing personal protective equipment and antiviral drugs.
Additional fixed-time surveillance studies in the ICU, using specific markers linked with phenotypic and genotypic analyses, may be employed to recognize outbreaks, to formulate emerging pathogen case definition and exclusion criteria leading to prevention of further cases, and to evaluate azole-based pre-emptive or targeted treatment when such criteria are fulfilled.
