Substance abuse, incarceration, and homelessness, social risk factors that are common among the TB source cases in our review but that greatly complicate contact investigations, have been shown to increase the likelihood of genotype cluster growth (10, 11 ) and outbreak development (3 ).
Research into the sensitivity of a forest health monitoring network to outbreaks of defoliating insects spurred development of a new model that simulates outbreaks and generates patterns of defoliation in forested landscapes.
Timely and accurate surveillance for ILI is an important component of the public health efforts to respond to outbreaks, as evidenced by the rapid development of the novel H1N1 into a pandemic during 2009.
Unlike these previous studies investigating whether nosocomial transmission contributed to PCP development during outbreak or clusters, the present study investigated the possibility of nosocomial transmission during the period without outbreak or clusters.
Future research efforts can lead to the development of outbreak prediction tools that can help public health authorities make timely decisions on campaigns informing the public on steps to take to prevent infection, such as avoiding exposure to mosquito bites (18 ).
Because we have the possible factors that can contribute to the development of outbreaks to those diseases if no precautions to decrease the risk are taken".
Outbreaks of APSGN usually coincide with scabies outbreaks, which can contribute to the development of chronic kidney disease and subsequent renal failure in adulthood [ 6].
Health officials have warned that taking antiviral medicines as a precaution could mean they are unavailable when needed during an actual outbreak and could lead to the development of drug resistance by viruses.
We recommend quantifying the effectiveness of interventions against norovirus to provide the necessary evidence to justify use of existing hygiene protocols during outbreaks and to direct the development of better intervention measures.
By making the code open source, we wish to encourage others to contribute to the future development of computer supported outbreak detection systems, and in particular to the development of the CASE framework.
