Shpiner is a clinical professor of medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. A study published recently in Annals of Internal Medicine confirmed what many clinicians had begun to suspect: ...
WASHINGTON — Wastewater surveillance for both prevalent and emerging pathogens can strengthen the nation’s infectious disease surveillance system, says a new report from the National Academies of ...
Chronic diseases are common and costly, yet they are also among the most preventable health problems (CDC, 2008). Comprehensive and accurate disease surveillance systems are needed to implement ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was modernizing a public health surveillance system used by 25 health jurisdictions nationwide to track diseases like hepatitis and tuberculosis when the ...
CDC studies show value of nationwide wastewater disease surveillance, as potential funding cut looms
Wastewater testing can alert public health officials to measles infections days to months before cases are confirmed by doctors, researchers said in two studies published Thursday by the Centers for ...
Like most countries, the U.S. has no comprehensive national system for monitoring disease in companion animals — which leaves pets and people at risk. By Emily Anthes Trupanion, a Seattle-based pet ...
The advance of H5N1 bird flu reminds us that novel pathogens remain a stubborn threat. Although a full-blown pandemic doesn’t appear imminent, the virus’s ability to infect a wide range of species — ...
A cluster of people talking on social media about their mysterious rashes. A sudden die-off of birds at a nature preserve. A big bump in patients showing up to a city’s hospital emergency rooms. These ...
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