New digital technologies for the surveillance of infectious diseases at mass gathering events

New digital technologies for the surveillance of infectious diseases at mass gathering events.

Outbreaks of infectious diseases at mass gatherings can strain the health system of the host region and pose a threat to local and global health. In addition to strengthening existing surveillance systems, most host nations also use novel technologies to assess disease risk and augment traditional surveillance approaches. We review novel approaches to disease surveillance using the Internet, mo...

Coordinated Enhanced Surveillance with Healthcare Entities for Mass Gathering Events

Introduction Mass gatherings can result in morbidity and mortality from communicable and non-communicable diseases, injury, and bioterrorism. Therefore, it is important to identify event-related visits as opposed to community-related visits when conducting public health surveillance1. Previous mass gatherings in Virginia have demonstrated the importance of implementing enhanced surveillance to ...

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Using SAGES OpenESSENCE for Mass Gathering Events

Introduction The SAGES (Suite for Automated Global Electronic bioSurveillance) team at the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory was approached by the Public Health Division of the Research, Evidence and Information Programme of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) to explore the feasibility of using the SAGES disease surveillance toolkit for two mass gathering events, th...

Public Health and Mass Gathering Events: Assessing Need for Surveillance in Wales, UK

Introduction Mass gathering is defined by WHO as – “More than specified number of persons (which can be as few as 1000 persons to more than 25000) at a specific location for a specific purpose (social function, large public event or sports competition) for a defined period of time”1. Mass gatherings are considered to have the potential for public health incidents, outbreaks and casualties attri...