disease surveillance

The Aedes aegypti mosquito will likely be increasingly abundant across much of the southern and eastern United States as the weather warm

New research just published has highlighted how El Niño could be transporting and spreading waterborne diseases like cholera thousands of miles, across oceans, with significant impacts for public health.

“It is not enough for our tool to be accurate. It has to be useful. It has to be in real time,” researcher says of interactive tool

Team also found genetic evidence that these mosquitoes have overwintered for at least the past four years

System provides knowledge ital for designing and advancing new functional materials

The current Ebola outbreak now requires a “rapid response at a massive global scale”, according to experts at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. 

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) have released the Suite for Automated Global Electronic bioSurveillance (SAGES), a collection of flexible, open-source software products developed for electronic disease surveillance in all settings.