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In the current Medical Surveillance Monthly Report...
Injuries due to firearms and air guns among U.S. military members not participating in overseas combat operations, 2002-2011 The increase in rates of firearm-related fatalities among non-deployed military members overall reflects the increase in rates of suicides by firearms... Health care encounters for injuries associated with a gun mechanism or component, U.S. Armed Forces These include injuries due to gun recoil, powder burns, explosion of gun parts, or being pinched between moving parts of a gun... Images in health surveillance: West Nile virus vectors and prevention Coccidioidomycosis, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, January 2000-June 2012 Incidence rates in active component military members did not demonstrate a consistently increasing trend; between January 2000 and June 2012, incidence rates ranged from a low of 0.15 per 10,000 person-years in 2003 to 0.41 per 10,000 person- years in 2006... Update: Pneumonia-influenza and severe acute respiratory illnesses, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, July 2000-June 2012 The relatively few hospitalizations for pneumonia-influenza in recent years reflect,at least in part, the effectiveness of influenza vaccines against the predominant circulating strains of influenza viruses... Pneumonia and influenza among military members and other beneficiaries of the U.S. military health system, 2007-2012 In contrast to other seasons, during 2009-10, there was a peak of cases during the summer and a much larger peak during the fall... Lightning-related medical encounters, U.S. Armed Forces, January 2009- August 2012 Thus far in 2012, there have been 39 service members with lightning-related medical encounters...

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Detecting and Reporting DoD Cases of Novel Coronavirus Infection The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center is providing guidance as of 4 OCT 2012... AFHSC 2011 Annual Report The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center has come a long way since the merging of the Department of Defense public health and global surveillance assets in February 2008. The 2011 AFHSC Annual reports marks the first agency-wide look at its programs and initiatives. The report describes the AFHSC data collection process, development of analyses and reports, documentation of surveillance standards and key contributions to surveillance through the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (GEIS)... Armed Forces Reportable Events Update Provides standard clinical case definitions used by the DoD to guide military public health officers, health-care providers, and laboratories in identifying and reporting specific diseases and injuries. The AFHSC maintains and publishes these guidelines with input from the three services and the DoD Joint Preventive Medicine Policy Group. DoD Influenza Surveillance Summary During the influenza season, the AFHSC produces a weekly summary of respiratory illness activity among US military health system beneficiaries, including both service members and their families. This summary report includes electronic, medical and lab-based surveillance data from the MHS as well as surveillance data from the DoD's overseas research laboratories and their partners. Annual HIV Update Routine screening for antibodies to HIV-1, civilian applicants for U.S. military service and U.S. Armed Forces, active and reserve components, August 2011.	Novel Coronavirus Infection AFHSC 2011 Annual Report Armed Forces Reportable Events Update DoD Influenza Surveillance Summary Annual HIV Update

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Detecting and Reporting DoD Cases of Novel Coronavirus Infection

The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center is providing guidance as of 4 OCT 2012...

AFHSC 2011 Annual Report

The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center has come a long way since the merging of the Department of Defense public health and global surveillance assets in February 2008. The 2011 AFHSC Annual reports marks the first agency-wide look at its programs and initiatives. The report describes the AFHSC data collection process, development of analyses and reports, documentation of surveillance standards and key contributions to surveillance through the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (GEIS)...

Armed Forces Reportable Events Update

Provides standard clinical case definitions used by the DoD to guide military public health officers, health-care providers, and laboratories in identifying and reporting specific diseases and injuries. The AFHSC maintains and publishes these guidelines with input from the three services and the DoD Joint Preventive Medicine Policy Group.

DoD Influenza Surveillance Summary

During the influenza season, the AFHSC produces a weekly summary of respiratory illness activity among US military health system beneficiaries, including both service members and their families. This summary report includes electronic, medical and lab-based surveillance data from the MHS as well as surveillance data from the DoD's overseas research laboratories and their partners.

Annual HIV Update

Routine screening for antibodies to HIV-1, civilian applicants for U.S. military service and U.S. Armed Forces, active and reserve components, August 2011.

Novel Coronavirus Infection AFHSC 2011 Annual Report Armed Forces Reportable Events Update DoD Influenza Surveillance Summary Annual HIV Update

Influenza Surveillance Summary and Reports

Weekly and annual influenza updates ...

Defense Medical Surveillance System (DMSS)

Database containing up-to-date and historical...

Installation Injury Reports

Injury related data of active duty U.S. service members based on...

DoD Serum Repository (DoDSR)

Specimens contained in the DoDSR are available to researchers...

Armed Forces Reportable Events

Achieves data consistency and standardization of...

Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (GEIS) Operations

Promotes, expands...

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