Abstract:Background: Taiwan suffered a serious Enterovirus-71 epidemic in 1998 and 78 children were dead from the outbreak. Several infectious disease surveillance systems were designed to detect virus situation in the community. However most of the surveillance system were passive surveillance and relied on physician reporting. Hence that an emergency department based syndromic surveillance system (ED-SSS) was developed and adopted in Taipei city after 2003 SARS outbreak. We aimed to use the syndromic surveillance to … Show more
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