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Just the Vax, Please: Six Signs the Article You’re Reading is Bad Science

July 16, 2014March 23, 2022 Jane Huston

One reason we feel so strongly about the role of vaccines in public health is because of the massive amount of good data and quality

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Summer: Time for Influenza Pandemics?

July 1, 2014March 23, 2022 Alexandra Thomsen

In the U.S. and the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, the flu is usually considered a wintertime illness. However, some of the most significant influenza

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Wild Poliovirus Type 1 Found in Brazil Sewage Samples – What Does It Mean?

June 24, 2014March 23, 2022 Alexandra Thomsen

Environmental samples from Campinas, São Paolo have tested positive for wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1), though the country has not reported any polio cases since

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Digital Disease Detection: We See The Trends, But Who is Actually Sick?

June 23, 2014March 23, 2022 Elaine Nsoesie

There are plenty of studies about tracking diseases (such as influenza) using digital data sources, which is awesome! However, many of these studies focus solely

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Update on Chikungunya in the Americas

June 18, 2014March 23, 2022 Alexandra Thomsen

Chikungunya, a mosquito-borne viral illness found for the first time in the Americas in December last year, has been spreading throughout Caribbean territories and continues

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The Quest for Big Data – Does it Ever End?

June 18, 2014March 23, 2022 Karen Biala

Perhaps more than ever before, massive amounts of health data are available at the click of a mouse. HealthMap, for example, utilizes an automated process

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Infectious Diseases and the World Cup

June 16, 2014March 23, 2022 Alexandra Thomsen

Over 600,000 people are expected to be traveling from around the world to attend the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which began on June 12 in

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Ebola Continues to Spread in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone

June 16, 2014March 23, 2022 Alexandra Thomsen

The Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, which was first identified in March 2014 in Guinea, continues to spread in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone.

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Digital Disease Detection: Tracking Influenza with…Wikipedia?

June 11, 2014March 23, 2022 Lakshmi Yajurvedi

Hello loyal Disease Daily readers! I am here to tell you about a new method of influenza-like illness surveillance, using a digital data source. Another

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Just the Vax, Please: You might owe your life to Maurice Hilleman. So why don’t you know who he is?

June 10, 2014March 23, 2022 Robyn Correll Carlyle

"If I had to name a person who has done more for the benefit of human health, with less recognition than anyone else, it would

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