Disease outbreak detection, monitoring and notification systems play an important role in assessing threats to public health since disease outbreaks are becoming increasingly common world-wide. There are several systems in use around the world, with coverage of national, international and global disease outbreaks. These systems use different taxonomies and classifications for the detection and ...

BACKGROUND The San Francisco Department of Public Health conducts HIV third-party partner notification in the following populations based on standard Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines: (1) persons with acute and nonacute incident HIV infection tested at the municipal sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic and the county hospital and (2) all county residents with ear...

I AM one of the practitioners of medicine in Edinburgh who believe that in the causation of phthisis, infection is a factor of such relatively small importance that the compulsory notification of this disease as an infectious disease is, in the majority of cases, quite unnecessary. I am, further, one of those who hold that its compulsory notification in all cases would be mischievous, as divert...