1. Chikungunya Epidemic in the French Overseas Territories using Syndromic Surveillance
- Author
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A. Fouillet, Jacques Rosine, Vanina Bousquet, Sylvie Cassadou, Audrey Andrieu, Luisiane Carvalho, Céline Caserio Schönemann, Thierry Cardoso, and Martine Ledrans
- Subjects
business.industry ,ISDS 2014 Conference Abstracts ,Emergency department ,medicine.disease_cause ,computer.software_genre ,Caribbean area ,Caribbean region ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Medicine ,Chikungunya ,Data mining ,France ,business ,Socioeconomics ,GP’s association ,computer ,General Environmental Science - Abstract
In December 2013, an emergence of chikungunya was observed in the French Caribbean region. The French syndromic surveillance system SurSaUD, based on the daily collection of attendances on emergency departments and calls to associations SOS Medecins, ensure a complementary surveillance with the specific system based on a sentinel general practitioners network. This study describes the temporal pattern of the chikungunya epidemic and the characteristics of patients in the French overseas territories of Americas using the syndromic surveillance system.
- Published
- 2015