Outbreak Column 16: Cognitive errors in outbreak decision making

A new outbreak of rinderpest in Iran

The 2015 New York City Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak: A Case Study on a History-Making Outbreak

On July 17, 2015, the Bureau of Communicable Disease of the New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) detected an abnormal number and distribution of Legionnaires’ disease (LD) cases in the South Bronx. This cluster of cases would eventually grow into the largest outbreak of LD in NYC history. The NYC DOHMH led the outbreak response, part of which included sampling num...

Legionnaires' disease outbreak: Victoria's largest identified outbreak.

This paper describes and analyses some aspects of an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Victoria, commencing in late October 1998. In all, 18 cases caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 were notified within 10 days making this the largest outbreak in Victoria reported to that date. All cases had epidemiological links to an industrial estate in a northern Melbourne suburb. Extensive env...

norovirus outbreak in iran

Cognitive Aspects of Decision Making

What are we in the Modeling & Simulation (M&S;)community to do with the volumes of ‘human terrain’ datanow being published by the military and others indatabases of the demographics and needs/values/norms ofpopulations of interest? This paper suggests that the M&S;community would be remiss if it did not rise to thischallenge and suggest next steps for the use of this human...