Reports summarize epidemiology research from University Hospital

Current study results from the report, "Propagation of program control: a tool for distributed disease surveillance," have been published. According to recent research from Norway, "The purpose of the study was (1) to identify the requirements for syndromic, disease surveillance and epidemiology systems arising from events such as the SARS outbreak in March 2003, and the deliberate spread of Bacillus anthracis, or anthrax, in the US in 2001; and (2) to use these specifications as input to the construction of a system intended to meet these requirements. An important goal was to provide information about the diffusion of a communicable disease without being dependent on centralised...

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