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Report-based surveillance systems have become another crucial source of epidemic surveillance to fill this gap.
Smallpox, for centuries a source of epidemic mortality (Terweil, 1987), was targeted by an intensive vaccination campaign.
In fact, event-based informal surveillance now represents a critical source of epidemic intelligence almost all major outbreaks investigated by the World Health Organization (WHO) are first identified through these informal sources (9, 13 ).
One could also argue that Southwood Smith was far from the first person to identify putrefying animal and vegetable matter as a source of epidemic disease and that it was common for eighteenth-century observers to regard dung heaps, human excrement, or other such forms of filth as potentially pestilential.
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High viral loads in patients returning from Indian Ocean islands to countries where Ae. albopictus is prevalent may be a source of epidemics.
The solution to this problem has important applications such as locating the sources of epidemics, the sources of news/rumors in social networks, or the sources of online computer virus.
The more humans trigger ecological changes, the greater the likelihood that we will come into contact with direct sources of epidemics.
Russian television quoted Dr. Gennadi Onishchenko as saying a dairy factory believed to be the source of the epidemic was guilty of "gross violations".
Tells how Dr. Schoenbaum & his colleagues traced the source of the epidemic to a baker in the West Branch Bakery who contaminated baked goods, which, in turn, were eaten by those who came down with hepatitis.
The environment minister, Roselyne Bachelot, has caused uproar by revealing that a petrochemical factory, seen as the likely source of the epidemic, had failed to close down its cooling tower in mid-October despite discovering bacteria levels some 700 times higher than normal.
Today, German officials announced that they are now certain that organic sprouts* are the source of the epidemic of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) in their country—and diners who took out their cameras before digging in have proven to be a big help.
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