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Research on life sciences described by scientists at Shiga University, Department of Health Science
March 11th, 2008
A report, 'Wide-area epidemics of influenza and pediatric diseases from infectious disease surveillance in Japan, 1999-2005,' is newly published data in Journal of Epidemiology. "Epidemics of infectious diseases usually start in small areas and subsequently become widespread widely. Although a method for detecting epidemics in public health center (PHC) areas has been proposed and used in the National Epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious Diseases in Japan, wide-area epidemics have not been fully investigated," investigators in Japan report. "Using the abovementioned method, we defined an epidemic as that occurring for a week in at least one PHC area in a...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-03-11)
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