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Evaluation of ProMED-mail as an electronic early warning system for emerging animal diseases: 1996 to 2004
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Evaluation of ProMED-mail as an electronic early warning system for emerging animal diseases: 1996 to 2004

Peter Cowen, Tam Garland, Martin E Hugh-Jones, Arnon Shimshony, Stuart Handysides, Donald Kaye, Lawrence C Madoff, Marjorie P Pollack and Jack Woodall
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, v 229(7), pp 1090-1099
01 Oct 2006
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2460/javma.229.7.1090
PMID: 17014355
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Abstract

Animals Communicable Diseases, Emerging - prevention & control Communicable Diseases, Emerging - veterinary Disease Outbreaks - statistics & numerical data Disease Outbreaks - veterinary Electronic Mail - statistics & numerical data Electronic Mail - utilization Global Health Humans Information Dissemination - methods Internet Retrospective Studies
To identify emerging animal and zoonotic diseases and associated geographic distribution, disease agents, animal hosts, and seasonality of reporting in the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED)-mail electronic early warning system. Retrospective study. 10,490 disease reports. Descriptive statistics were collated for all animal disease reports appearing on the ProMED-mail system from January 1, 1996, to December 31, 2004. Approximately 30% of reports concerned events in the United States; reports were next most common in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Russia, and China. Rabies, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and anthrax were reported consistently over the study period, whereas avian influenza, Ebola virus, and Hantavirus infection were reported frequently in approximately half of the study years. Reports concerning viral agents composed more than half of the postings. Humans affected by zoonotic disease accounted for a third of the subjects. Cattle were affected in 1,080 reports, and wildlife species were affected in 825 reports. For the 10,490 postings studied, there was a retraction rate of 0.01 and a correction rate of 0.02. ProMED-mail provided global coverage, but gaps in coverage for individual countries were detected. The value of a global electronic reporting system for monitoring emerging diseases over a 9-year period illustrated how new technologies can augment disease surveillance strategies. The number of animal and zoonotic diseases highlights the importance of animals in the study of emerging diseases.

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