Sentence examples for the outbreak phase from inspiring English sources

As mentioned above, HCWs were not screened either as part of the routine surveillance program or during the outbreak phase.

Through discussion at the expert meeting, suggestions were made for the development of a more standardised approach in the form of a model contingency plan, with agreed outbreak definitions and country-specific risk assessment schemes to initiate early response activities according to the outbreak phase.

The government only started advising people to avoid crowded places at the 'community outbreak phase' of the epidemic.

The lack of planned control groups which makes it difficult to assess the likely exposures and infection rates within similar settings, but previous experiences have suggested that exposures and infection rates during the initial outbreak phase are high in closed environments [ 15- 17].

In sum, the results of this study documented that a noticeable proportion of the public exhibited avoidance behaviors that had not been advised by the government and negative psychological responses at the early 'pre-community outbreak phase' of the H1N1 outbreak.

The studies covered the entire early 'pre-community outbreak phase' of the H1N1 epidemic in Hong Kong during which all confirmed cases were imported.

Through logistic regression we found that the association between outbreak phase and survival persisted when controlling for age and sex (crude OR = 13, [95% CI 1.11-152]; adjusted OR = 16, [1.07-241]).

The first local community-infected case with an unknown source of infection was reported on June 11 , 2009 so that the surveys (May 7 to June 6 , 2009 therefore covered almost the entire 'pre-community outbreak phase' (May 1 to June 10 , 2009 of the local epidemic.

The study period of this report covers almost the entire pre-pandemic and pre-community outbreak phase of the H1N1 epidemic in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is now in the pandemic and 'community outbreak phase'.

20 For a fit with very short timelines following the onset of the outbreak (establishment phase), the uncertainty in estimates of R0 will be high.