Background In the current information age, the use of data has become essential for
decision making in public health at the local, national, and global level. Despite a global …

Emerging infectious diseases present a complex challenge to public health officials and
governments; these challenges have been compounded by rapidly shifting patterns of …

Objective An emerging outbreak of a novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has now been detected
in at least 211 countries worldwide. Given this pandemic situation, robust risk …

Big data has become an important issue for a large number of research areas such as data
mining, machine learning, computational intelligence, information fusion, the semantic Web …

BACKGROUND: This study reviewed Twitter status updates mentioning “antibiotic (s)” to
determine overarching categories and explore evidence of misunderstanding or misuse of …

Context The exchange of health information on the Internet has been heralded as an
opportunity to improve public health surveillance. In a field that has traditionally relied on an …

" This book highlights that the capacity for gathering, analysing, and utilising vast amounts of
digital (user) data raises significant ethical issues. Annika Richterich provides a systematic …

Surveillance of emerging infectious diseases is vital for the early identification of public
health threats. Emergence of novel infections is linked to human factors such as population …

The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic reveals a
major gap in global biosecurity infrastructure: a lack of publicly available biological samples …

Abstract In November 2010,≈ 27,000 (≈ 45%) inhabitants of Östersund, Sweden, were
affected by a waterborne outbreak of cryptosporidiosis. The outbreak was characterized by a …