HEALTHBEAT

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

SARS-CoV-2 concentrations in New York state (yellow line) are minimal, while national concentrations (black) are high and increasing, according to data from the CDC National Wastewater Surveillance System. RSV: Moderate and decreasing RSV has peaked and continues to decline in New York.

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The Hindu

OCTOBER 23, 2024

India's robust Acute Flaccid Paralysis surveillance system is crucial for maintaining its polio-free status and preventing outbreaks.

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Science Daily - Public Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

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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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Upgrade your surveillance using cloud access control. Another outdated piece of tech many companies are still using involves surveillance systems. Especially in highly-trafficked areas of your business, you may rely on CCTV cameras or another surveillance platform in order to control who can come into your business.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 20, 2021

And co-author Eva Pilot adds: “Working toward an improved and resilient coordinated national health system and strengthening the local, regional and national surveillance systems should become of high priority, including taking cross-border surveillance with neighboring countries into account.”.

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WA State Department of Health

MARCH 10, 2025

Public Health 101 Series Introduction to Public Health Surveillance stevie.mathieu March 10, 2025 - 3:08pm This course introduces learners to the role of public health surveillance, types and uses of surveillance systems, and how data are used to improve public health sciences, programs, and policies.

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UK Health Security

OCTOBER 8, 2024

As we approach another winter season, UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is ramping up its comprehensive surveillance systems to monitor flu and other seasonal respiratory viruses. Laboratory surveillance NHS and UKHSA laboratories across England, provide weekly data on major respiratory viruses.

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HEALTHBEAT

DECEMBER 23, 2024

SARS-CoV-2 concentrations in New York state (yellow line) are minimal while national concentrations (black) are low and increasing, according to data from the CDC National Wastewater Surveillance System. Covid-19 continues to pick up in New York City, where wastewater shows that levels are increasing.

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APHL

OCTOBER 7, 2024

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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Smart Data Collective

MAY 4, 2023

Access control mechanisms, surveillance systems, and security awareness training for employees are essential elements of a strong physical security strategy. Physical Security A comprehensive vendor security risk management strategy should also include physical security measures.

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International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

MAY 19, 2022

However, few countries have similar physical activity surveillance systems, and even fewer have data from before the 2007 advent of smartphones. Most current physical activity surveillance systems are therefore unlikely to fully capture real changes in human movement behaviour across the lifespan.

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HEALTHBEAT

DECEMBER 11, 2024

SARS-CoV-2 concentrations in New York (yellow line) are minimal and declining, according to data from the CDC National Wastewater Surveillance System. Covid-19: minimal but increasing Covid-19 levels are minimal in New York, but we are starting to see some signals that transmission is increasing.

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APHL

JANUARY 15, 2025

We genotype these specimens and send the data to CDC via CaliciNet [a national norovirus surveillance system comprised of federal, state and local public health laboratories], Anhalt explained. A select handful of these laboratories also send in sporadic positive norovirus samples that are not associated with an outbreak.

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APHL

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

And the fact that we hear about food illness investigations means the country’s surveillance system is working as it should. Fact: To the contrary—the US has a series of checks and balances (inspections, partnerships and food safety research and education) in place that help make its food supply one of the safest in the world.

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APHL

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The country has multiple flu surveillance systems in place that monitor and track a variety of flu strains, including HPAI H5N1, year-round. The nation’s influenza detection systems, which are designed to detect novel viruses, have tested tens of thousands of specimens since February alone. Things are not escalating.

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HEALTHBEAT

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

It’s hard to know exactly how many people have died due to heat in Georgia because no surveillance system exists, although national numbers can help indicate local trends, Chicas said. It’s hard to identify when heat causes a death.

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Gideon

JUNE 7, 2021

2. Development of Public Health Surveillance Systems A competent public health surveillance system should be implemented by the governmental and related organizations to identify impending outbreaks in order to facilitate effective policies and goals (6, 7).

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HEALTHBEAT

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Testing data for RSV, influenza, and Covid-19 for New York state labs participating in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System NREVSS. New York City RSV testing data from the Influenza and RSV Surveillance Report.

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HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 1, 2024

A large surge of infections outside of farmworker communities would trigger the government’s flu surveillance system, but by then it might be too late to contain. “We The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bases decisions on its surveillance. “The The system scans for abnormal increases in hospital visits.

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HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 30, 2024

Monica Ponder, exhibit curator “The arts and opportunities like this are a great way to layer on and complement what we know quantitatively through surveillance systems and surveys,” added Ponder, who is trained as an epidemiologist and formerly worked at the U.S. Are we listening?” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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HEALTHBEAT

OCTOBER 30, 2024

New York state Covid-19 wastewater activity levels from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Wastewater Surveillance System. This is down from the summer peak of 6.5 There are now 107 New York sites reporting data to CDC NWSS.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 19, 2019

By leveraging the power of this futuristic technology, they can manipulate the surveillance systems. Hacking a system is never an easy task. Political Security : If the hackers target any specific political group, with AI, they can easily fulfill their destructive goals. But with AI-enabled tools, the task becomes pretty easier.

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Gideon

JUNE 24, 2021

Lots of data still need to be produced, in order to strengthen surveillance systems. Deming said that “without data, you are just another person with an opinion”. Data are essential to guide domestic and international policymaking.

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University of Minnesota CIDRAP

AUGUST 30, 2019

Aug 29 Lancet Infect Dis study Data show vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium rising in Germany Data from the German Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System show a 43% increase in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) in German hospitals, according to a new study in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.

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Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Systems 52

Gideon

JULY 21, 2021

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. Surprisingly, it is often overlooked.

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National Network of Public Health Institutes

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Antiquated surveillance systems can prevent actionable information from reaching decision-makers efficiently, with information often taking over a year or more to reach public health agencies. There are widespread initiatives to move the work of data modernization forward in public health.

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Maternal Health Task Force

MARCH 18, 2024

Potential sources of Open Data on maternal nativity and language include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as they have already provided Open datasets including the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).

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Big Cities Health Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In 2022, Houston Health Department became one of only two jurisdictions in the country to be recognized by CDC as a National Wastewater Surveillance System Center of Excellence.

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Big Cities Health Coalition

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Further, the way we fund public health is all too often siloed by program or disease, so that little funding goes to support the underlying infrastructure, such as epidemiology and surveillance systems; workforce; and health and risk communication. Funding must be flexible as health threats continually change.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

That’s according to 16 years of data from the US National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Injury Surveillance System, published in a new paper to Frontiers in Endocrinology. F emale athletes are between three and eight times more likely to suffer devastating ACL injuries compared to their male counterparts.

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HEALTHBEAT

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The case identification followed New Yorks strong infectious disease surveillance system: The doctor was prepared and noticed this patient had signs and symptoms of mpox virus and a travel history to a country with an ongoing outbreak, increasing the suspicion that this patient had mpox.

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Gideon

APRIL 14, 2021

Recently, a new surveillance system has been implemented in some countries where malaria is also endemic; microscopy technicians have been trained to identify T. In China , blood donors are not currently screened for Chagas disease. cruzi in malaria films (18).

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HEALTHBEAT

APRIL 2, 2025

Cuts threaten disease surveillance, vaccination efforts in New York City The CDCs more than $100 million cut to the New York City Health Department will primarily impact work related to combating infectious diseases, from surveillance systems and outbreak response capacity to local efforts to increase vaccination levels.

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The Global Fund

JANUARY 23, 2025

Although unassuming from the outside, this building is the epicenter of the vast digital disease surveillance system in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Kinshasa-based National Centre for Epidemiological Intelligence seems a world away from the mega citys notoriously chaotic streets.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 31, 2025

Acting Director Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1600 Clifton Road NE Atlanta, GA 30329 To Acting Secretary Fink and Acting Director Monarez: We are writing on behalf of the 1,400 members of the Association of Health Care Journalists, to protest the removal of vital public health data from the CDC website , including survey results from the (..)

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Your Local Epidemiologist

MARCH 28, 2025

Let’s be crystal clear: In the first year of the pandemic, we faced a crisis with literally no vaccine, no treatment, terrible diagnostics, no surveillance system, and no federal plan. Yet, we see alarming examples like Florida’s approach to measles in schools, which fundamentally undermines proven public health strategies.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 31, 2025

Some data, such as the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System and the CDCs Social Vulnerability Index were unavailable on Friday afternoon. The entire website was briefly unavailable, and journalists are reporting that several datasets may be affected by the sweeping changes.

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