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The Role of Event-Based Biosurveillance in Biodefense

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The term biosurveillance refers to the collection, analysis, and dissemination of multiple types of data for early warning, early detection, situational awareness, and consequence management support of biological events. This broad view encompasses both traditional and more recent approaches to surveillance as they relate to natural and intentional outbreaks and epidemics in human and agricultural populations. This chapter focuses on event-based biosurveillance utilizing data available from the internet. We provide an overview of the process of event-based biosurveillance, describe important computer methods for handling and analyzing collected data, and discuss future directions and research needs.

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    A detailed case study illustrating the application of biosurveillance related to an outbreak of dengue fever can be found in [9].

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Hartley, D.M., Mui, WL., Corley, C.D. (2019). The Role of Event-Based Biosurveillance in Biodefense. In: Singh, S., Kuhn, J. (eds) Defense Against Biological Attacks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03053-7_3

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