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Showing posts with label Outbreak. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Outbreak. Show all posts
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
Dengue Fever in Florida (in the US?)
An outbreak in Key West, Fla., has re-emerged in April 2010. Historically, dengue was in Florida in the early 1900, but locally-acquired cases had not been confirmed since then until August 2009. The recent Florida outbreak might have gone unnoticed if it hadn't been for an astute physician in upstate New York who identified the first case in Rochester, N.Y., involving a patient who had just returned from a week-long visit to Key West.
In the US, dengue fever has rarely been an issue outside of the Texas-Mexico border region, but currently it is estimated that more than half of the US population live in places which contain one or both of mosquito species capable of transmitting the dengue fever virus creating conditions more favorable for an outbreak. Dengue is now [starting last year] a reportable disease in the US due to its increasing threat.
Dengue fever is characterized by agonizing aching in the bones, joints and muscles, a pounding headache, pain behind the eyes, a high fever and a classic rash. There is no cure or vaccine, only preventative and supportive care.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
MBDS ICT and Technology Forum
I presented the following at the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance (MBDS), Information Communication and Technology Forum which took place April 2nd–3rd, 2009 in Mukdahan Province, Thailand.
I. ICT Developments in Mobile Technology for Global Public Health: InSTEDD Collaboration Tools
II. Using GeoChat for a Cross-Border Field Simulation Exercise
III. MBDS SE Asia Collaborative Early Warning & Response workspace (using Evolve)
At the end of the forum, Ed and I answered questions related to the utility and feasibility of GeoChat and Evolve in the various MBDS member countries.
I. ICT Developments in Mobile Technology for Global Public Health: InSTEDD Collaboration Tools
View more presentations from Taha Kass-hout.
III. MBDS SE Asia Collaborative Early Warning & Response workspace (using Evolve)
View more presentations from Taha Kass-hout.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Open Collaboration Experiment around Emergency Alerts, Disasters, Market Recalls, and More...
We set up two open collaboration spaces around up-to-date notifications and alerts on the following:
- Emergency Preparedness & Response alerts, Recent Outbreaks and Incidents, Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA), and Public Service Announcements for Hurricanes from US CDC
- Recalls, market withdrawals and safety alerts from the the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
These spaces offer a suite of collaborative features, including: commenting, tagging (adding your own keywords), mapping (user generated and automated), relating multiple alerts, searching and filtering, specifying a time window, adding attachments, subscribing (currently in the form of a web-friendly format also known as RSS, but in the very near future we will support email subscription), and more. The two spaces are also equipped with an intelligent process (referred to as machine-learning algorithm) that "learns" from inputs provided by the users (e.g., adding a keyword (tag), or correcting the mapping of an item). This intelligent process quickly and accurately learns from users inputs (with 95% confidence based on previous tests) and starts suggesting tags as well as correcting itself and offering even better results over time (by simply accepting or rejecting a suggested tag or an automatically mapped location).
Have you an alert or item you like to share with the community? You can easily contribute that alert by clicking the "Add Item" feature.
We invite you to try it and help us spread the good word by inviting others as well. We look forward to your feedback and comments in order to make this tool as useful as it can possibly be. If you have thoughts or questions you can contact us at info@instedd.org or email me directly at: kasshout@instedd.org.
- Emergency Preparedness & Response alerts, Recent Outbreaks and Incidents, Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA), and Public Service Announcements for Hurricanes from US CDC
- Recalls, market withdrawals and safety alerts from the the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
These spaces offer a suite of collaborative features, including: commenting, tagging (adding your own keywords), mapping (user generated and automated), relating multiple alerts, searching and filtering, specifying a time window, adding attachments, subscribing (currently in the form of a web-friendly format also known as RSS, but in the very near future we will support email subscription), and more. The two spaces are also equipped with an intelligent process (referred to as machine-learning algorithm) that "learns" from inputs provided by the users (e.g., adding a keyword (tag), or correcting the mapping of an item). This intelligent process quickly and accurately learns from users inputs (with 95% confidence based on previous tests) and starts suggesting tags as well as correcting itself and offering even better results over time (by simply accepting or rejecting a suggested tag or an automatically mapped location).
Have you an alert or item you like to share with the community? You can easily contribute that alert by clicking the "Add Item" feature.
We invite you to try it and help us spread the good word by inviting others as well. We look forward to your feedback and comments in order to make this tool as useful as it can possibly be. If you have thoughts or questions you can contact us at info@instedd.org or email me directly at: kasshout@instedd.org.
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