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Wastewater monitoring can detect foodborne illness

Science Daily - Public Health

First used in the 1940s to monitor for polio, wastewater surveillance proved such a powerful disease monitoring tool that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the National Wastewater Surveillance System to support SARS-CoV-2 monitoring in September of 2020.

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4 Tips for Manage Outdated Systems In and Enterprise

Smart Data Collective

Learn more about which MDM platform is the best for your needs by researching analyst reports such as the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant MDM report to get a comprehensive overview of all the leading industry providers. Upgrade your surveillance using cloud access control.

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How well did the EU respond to the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic? Experts now give their verdict

Frontiers

The interviews occurred during or shortly after the first wave of the pandemic, between May and August of 2020. For the study, the authors interviewed 18 public health experts from individual EU countries as well as from the European Commission. Read original article ? “At

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From Surveillance to Syringe: The Making of a Flu Vaccine

APHL

APHL, along with CDC, launched the Influenza Virologic Surveillance Right Size Roadmap to help determine how many samples each state should contribute to the national surveillance system. It also points to the quality and number of samples the US system contributes when it comes to developing candidate vaccine viruses.

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Have smartphones and ubiquitous internet access affected sedentary time among children and adolescents?

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

In 2020, there were more than six billion smartphone users worldwide and almost global penetration. However, few countries have similar physical activity surveillance systems, and even fewer have data from before the 2007 advent of smartphones.

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Vendor Security is Key to Preventing Future Data Breaches

Smart Data Collective

The number of data breaches in the first nine months of 2020 dropped 30% compared to 2019, according to a report published by the Identity Theft Resource Center. Access control mechanisms, surveillance systems, and security awareness training for employees are essential elements of a strong physical security strategy.

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Misdiagnosing Legionellosis and Legionnaires Disease Can Be Fatal. But Why Is It Still Common?

Gideon

So much so that even the World Health Organization or WHO states, “Since many countries lack appropriate methods of diagnosing the infection or sufficient surveillance systems, the rate of occurrence is unknown. Paterna, Valencia, Spain, 2020; The Legionella training Why is Legionnaires’ Disease Often Misdiagnosed or Overlooked?