BACKGROUND Routine surveillance of disease notification data can enable the early detection of localised disease outbreaks. Although hidden Markov models (HMMs) have been recognised as an appropriate method to model disease surveillance data, they have been rarely applied in public health practice. We aimed to develop and evaluate a simple flexible HMM for disease surveillance which is suitable...

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have become one of the major public health threats to the sustainable development of human beings. Among all of the STIs in China, three are listed as the notifiable infectious diseases, i.e., gonorrhea, syphilis, and HIV/AIDS, which demand more attention. This study aims to detect, describe, and compare the spatial-temporal clustering of these notifiable ...

ABSTRACT Objective: To verify the agreement of data on severe forms and deaths from schistosomiasis recorded in Brazilian Notifiable Diseases Information System Mortality System, sociodemographic variables with occurrence deaths, temporal trend disease state Pernambuco, Brazil. Methods: This is an ecological, descriptive, time series study 2007 to 2017. For linkage between databases, a function...

In 2006, 66 diseases and conditions were nationally notifiable in Australia. States and territories reported a total of 138,511 cases of communicable diseases to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System: an increase of 10.4% on the number of notifications in 2005. In 2006, the most frequently notified diseases were sexually transmissible infections (57,941 notifications, 42% of tota...

During the post-war decade the control of venereal disease in Australia has followed a pattern somewhat similar to that in other informed countries overseas. Full advantage has been taken of improved methods of treatment and in administrative organization, and results compare favourably with those reported from abroad. In New South Wales the Division of Social Hygiene has, on account of the dec...

This review is to provide information on viral diseases of livestock in Zambia. The distribution of the diseases as well as the control measures and limited research that has been done, are described. Foot and mouth disease (FMD) causes serious economic losses in the cattle industry. So far five serotypes (SAT1, SAT2, SAT3, O and At of FMD virus have been isolated in Zambia. Other notifiable vi...

Introduction Zika virus disease and Zika virus congenital infection are nationally notifiable conditions that became prominent recently as a growing number of travel-associated infections have been identified in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have dedicated significant time and effort on determining and addressing the risks and impact of Zika on pregnant...

COVID-19 Associated Mucormycosis (CAM) is an emerging infectious disease that has caused increased mortality & morbidity in India during this second wave of the pandemic. The country reported more than 30,000 cases and over 2,000 deaths by so far, according to sources from Union Health Ministry. CAM now a notifiable disease. At our Tertiary care teaching hospital, which caters for COVID 19 ...

Despite widespread use of communicable disease surveillance data to inform public health intervention and control measures, the reporting completeness of the notifiable disease surveillance system remains incompletely assessed. Therefore, we conducted a comprehensive study of reporting completeness with an analysis of 53 diseases reported by 8 health care systems across North Carolina, USA, dur...