Early detection of disease outbreaks using the Internet
- 13 April 2009
- journal article
- review article
- Published by CMA Impact Inc. in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association Journal
- Vol. 180 (8) , 829-831
- https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.090215
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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