Early detection of disease outbreaks using the Internet
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- 12 March 2009
- journal article
- Published by CMA Impact Inc. in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association Journal
- Vol. 180 (8) , 829-831
- https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1090215
Abstract
Rapidly identifying an infectious disease outbreak is critical, both for effective initiation of public health intervention measures and timely alerting of government agencies and the general public. Surveillance capacity for such detection can be costly, and many countries lack the public healthKeywords
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