NEW
GeoSentinel PUBLICATIONS:
“Health Risks in Travelers to China: the GeoSentinel Experience and Implications
for the 2008 Beijing Olympics” published in American Journal of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene July 2008
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“Seasonality,
Annual Trends, and Characteristics of Dengue among Ill
Returned Travelers, 1997-2006” published
in Emerging Infectious Diseases July 2008
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GeoSentinel
is a worldwide communication and data collection network
for the surveillance of travel related morbidity.
It was initiated in
1995
by the
International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) and
the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as a network
of ISTM member travel/tropical medicine clinics. GeoSentinel
is based on the concept that
these clinics are ideally situated to effectively detect
geographic and temporal trends in morbidity among
travelers, immigrants and
refugees.
Current
activities include:
GeoSentinel
Surveillance Sites
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GeoSentinel
Network Members
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GeoSentinel
Sites participate in surveillance and monitoring of all travel
related illnesses seen
in their clinics. Aggregation of this data across the network
of 41 globally dispersed medicine clinics on all continents (15
in the United States and 26 in other countries) allows linking
of
final
diagnoses
in
migrating populations with similar geographic exposures. In
addition to formal surveillance, GeoSentinel sites also participate
in enhanced
surveillance and networking with public health partners.
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GeoSentinel
Network Members are ISTM provider clinics
that informally
provide leads and contacts when they
encounter any patient having a pre-defined
alarming diagnosis
or unusual event. Network Members
also participate in brief e-mail queries
for
enhanced surveillance
and response in potential outbreak situations. This
program allows large numbers of individual
members in many countries to be rapidly
linked together to share clinical observations
and facilitates direct interaction with
health authorities. |
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