The events of fall 2001, particularly the mailing of anthrax spores to public officials and the consequent anthrax cases, have had a dramatic and immediate effect on the perception of public health in ...

By the time April’s first warm weekends drew hikers into the woods across the Northeast, emergency rooms were already seeing ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) - The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is chosen for a new pilot program to identify and assist people with intellectual disabilities during public health ...

After 9/11 spurred governments to invest in combatting bioterrorism, a group of disease experts figured out how to track pandemics with a technique called "syndromic surveillance." The technique ...

The demand for swift and accurate diagnosis of infectious diseases stands as a paramount challenge. Syndromic infectious disease testing is a novel approach that focuses on identifying the cause of an ...

According to a scientific brief by the World Health Organization (WHO), there is insufficient information to implement syndromic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) testing for severe acute ...

Given that funding for syndromic surveillance clearly emanates from a desire to be able to detect and respond more promptly to a future bioterrorist event than would otherwise be possible, a key ...