(ME) Infectious Deaths Surveillance
... Christine Lees, RN, MPH, Jean Rainbow, RN, MPH, Ruth Lynfield, MD Background In 2006, the MN Department of Health (MDH) began an ME infectious deaths surveillance program (MED-X). This supplemented an existing Unexplained Deaths (UNEX) program targeted at young healthy people. MED-X was conducted at ...
... Christine Lees, RN, MPH, Jean Rainbow, RN, MPH, Ruth Lynfield, MD Background In 2006, the MN Department of Health (MDH) began an ME infectious deaths surveillance program (MED-X). This supplemented an existing Unexplained Deaths (UNEX) program targeted at young healthy people. MED-X was conducted at ...
Outbreak investigation Tutorial
... information. Demographic information: Age, sex, date of birth, current status(dead or alive) Clinical information: date of report, date of onset of symptoms, presenting symptoms, diagnosis, laboratory findings. Relevant risk factor information: last meal eaten (what and where), contact with an ...
... information. Demographic information: Age, sex, date of birth, current status(dead or alive) Clinical information: date of report, date of onset of symptoms, presenting symptoms, diagnosis, laboratory findings. Relevant risk factor information: last meal eaten (what and where), contact with an ...
2009 flu pandemic by country
This article deals with the status and efforts regarding the 2009 flu pandemic by country and continent/region.As the pandemic progressed, laboratory testing and confirmation decreased. Confirmed figures for the United Kingdom, in particular, are only meaningful up to 2 July, when routine testing stopped and presumed cases were treated without laboratory confirmation of diagnosis. Following the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO), many countries stopped issuing estimates of the infected population, making this list inaccurate.*Includes countries with over 40 confirmed cases only.