Airborne disease transmission is central to many scientific disciplines, including agriculture,
veterinary biosafety, medicine, and public health. Legal and regulatory standards are in …

The incidence of Legionnaires' disease in the United States has been increasing since
2000. Outbreaks and clusters are associated with decorative, recreational, domestic, and …

Staff at public health departments have few training materials to learn how to design and fine-
tune systems to quickly detect acute, localized, community-acquired outbreaks of infectious …

A surveillance system that uses census tract resolution and the SaTScan prospective space-
time scan statistic detected clusters of increasing severe acute respiratory syndrome …

During the summer of 2015, New York, New York, USA, had one of the largest and deadliest
outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease in the history of the United States. A total of 138 cases …

Background: A community-wide outbreak of Legionnaires' disease (LD) occurred in
Genesee County, Michigan, in 2014 and 2015. Previous reports about the outbreak are …

SaTScan can be used for discrete as well as continuous scan statistics. For discrete scan
statistics the geographical locations where data are observed are non-random and fixed by …

Most of CAP cases are managed in the outpatient setting. However, most research is
focused on hospitalized severe patients. New and awaited advances might contribute to aid …

This study investigated prevalence of Legionella in the New York City (NYC) water
distribution system using International Organization for Standardization 11731: 2017 and …

ABSTRACT Since 1978, the New York State Department of Health's public health laboratory,
Wadsworth Center (WC), in collaboration with epidemiology and environmental partners …