The Disease DailyMay 19, 2013
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Disease Surveillance

Usutu Virus Highlights Importance of Disease Surveillance

By Katharina Schwan
In 2001, the city of Vienna, Austria noticed a strange and sudden disappearance of its Eurasion Blackbird population. Researchers and scientists were equally puzzled by the decrease in blackbirds...

Healthy Olympics 2012: Disease surveillance and mass gathering medicine

By Katharina Schwan
In the blockbuster Contagion, Gwyneth Paltrow travels to Hong Kong on business and returns to suburban Minneapolis with flu-like symptoms. Within days she is dead. Paltrow is the index case in a...