background: the outbreaks of foodborne diseases is a major health problem and occur daily in all countries, from the most to the least developed. this study is the first report of foodborne outbreaks in iran that carried out from 2006 to 2011. methods: a retrospective, longitudinal study carried out using foodborne disease national surveillance system data from 2006-2011, which have been report...

conclusions respiratory disease, musculoskeletal pain, headache, and digestion problems were among the most important reasons of patients' referral to physicians in times of hajj. the mentioned complications could be prevented through correct trainings and conforming to health recommendations in times of hajj. results in general, medical data of 107074 cases had been registered in this software...

background : there are few published studies that use real data testing to examine the performance of outbreak detection methods. the aim of this study was to determine the performance of the exponentially weighted moving average (ewma) in real time detection of a local outbreak in mashhad city, eastern iran . methods : the ewma algorithms (both ewma 1 with λ=0.3 and ewma 2 with λ=0.6) were app...

dear editor, the world health organization (who) has announced the 2014 outbreak of ebola virus as an international public health emergency.[1] this outbreak originated in guinea in the month of march, and gradually involved five nations in the west africa (viz. sierra leone, liberia, nigeria, senegal, and the democratic republic of congo).[2] the outbreak was caused by the zaire species of ebo...