Biosurveillance
Surveillance and Attribution Investigations GCH 535
Surveillance and Attribution Investigations
Post by Day 3, Wednesday, a brief description of current domestic and international systems available for biosurveillance. Then discuss the importance of biosurveillance for public health preparedness, and the various actors engaged in this activity. Next, identify policy directives that support biosurveillance activities in association with preparedness. Then discuss how attribution investigations are conducted and the different entities involved in the investigation.
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Bio-surveillance seeks to gather, analyze, and interpret disease-activity based data that might threaten human or animal health (Dembek et al., 2007). The international and domestic systems available for bio-surveillance include BioSense, which allows the CDC to share data across states. Project Argus detects and tracks biological occurrences that might harm human and animal life. The BioCaster system operates…
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