Internet surveillance systems for early alerting of health threats
EurosurveillancePublished 2 April 2009Open access
Jens P. Linge, Ralf Steinberger, Thomas Weber, Roman Yangarber, Erik van der Goot, D H Al Khudhairy
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In order to gather a comprehensive picture of potential epidemic threats, public health authorities increasingly rely on systems that perform epidemic intelligence, which makes use of information that originates from official sources as well as from informal sources such as electronic media and web-based information tools.
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In order to gather a comprehensive picture of potential epidemic threats, public health authorities increasingly rely on systems that perform epidemic intelligence (EI). EI makes use of information that originates from official sources such as national public health surveillance systems as well as from informal sources such as electronic media and web-based information tools.
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