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Spot the Epidemic: Crowdsourcing the Identification of Epidemics

Posted on May 02, 2019

Blog: National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO)

Is it a random uptick in death and disease or is it a trend? This question haunts disease surveillance experts in state and local health departments around the world. Death and disease incidence rates rise and fall–they seldom get systematically smaller in every single time period. How to distinguish an epidemic from random fluctuation can […]

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