One industry expert said the mass deaths indicated a disease outbreak, possibly on a single farm.
They and others like them have helped reduce the lag between a disease outbreak and its detection.
Prevention of a disease outbreak is the most important means of control and requires a proactive approach.
Its first project, in 2001, allowed rural doctors in Peru to call an 800 number and either speak or type in details about a patient or a disease outbreak.
However, Simon Cousens, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, points out that such a pattern does not necessarily mean a disease outbreak is levelling off.
"The work done by the MIT team paves the way to find new containment strategies" because it allows a better understanding of the patterns characterizing the initial stages of a disease outbreak, he said in a comment on the research.
Jon Andrus, deputy director of the Pan American Health Organization, said doctors have seen no increase in reportable diseases within Haiti and there is no risk of a communicable disease outbreak or any other public health threat associated with bodies.
The natives' numbers were down: they were just recovering from a massive outbreak of disease, probably passed on by European traders.
The new body says it has two immediate issues to fight both of which have emerged as a result of the disease outbreak.
There was a fresh outbreak of the disease reported in Powys on Monday, bringing the total of confirmed cases for Wales to 91.
"It's quite galling for us to have to do all this because basically yet again the government has missed the boat on a serious outbreak of tree disease, " he said.
Rules on displaying hot tubs in shops and public places should be reviewed, according to a report into a fatal outbreak of Legionnaires' disease.
Plaintiffs led by cattleman Paul Engler sued Winfrey, her production company and Howard Lyman, a vegetarian activist guest who warned of a possible outbreak of mad cow disease in the United States.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Civil and Environmental Engineering department looked at the 40 largest U.S. airports and figured out which ones would be the most likely to spread a disease in the event of an outbreak in the cities they serve.
No-one was wearing gas masks or any special protective clothing and yet this was the scene of the latest outbreak of a potentially deadly disease.
Its jobless rate could approach levels seen in 2003, during the outbreak of SARS, a respiratory disease.
"A larger outbreak of BSE or some other livestock disease could devastate rural economies, " Dean said.
Currently, the methods used to assess an infection by America's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention lag an outbreak by a week or two.
On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a response plan for any potential outbreak.
The Meningitis Trust was formed in 1985 after a group of parents got together following an outbreak of the disease in Stroud and Stonehouse.
As if things were not already bad enough, the World Health Organisation confirmed last month that an outbreak in Nigeria of polio, a crippling child disease it had hoped was on the brink of being eradicated, had reached Darfur.
In November an outbreak of the disease in the UK led to a complete ban on the importation of ash to the island.
Their connection -- if any -- with Sarawak has not been made public, but the danger of the disease's spread to peninsular Malaysia has heightened anxiety of a national outbreak.
The potential hazards of working with viruses was underlined in 2007 when the Pirbright laboratory site was identified as the source of a leak which led to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
Plaintiff Henry Chanin contracted the disease following a colonoscopy at one of several clinics in the area tied to the outbreak.
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Cuba's health ministry has confirmed a cholera outbreak in Havana with 51 people infected - the biggest incidence of the disease there in decades.
An outbreak of the disease in Philadelphia in 1976, largely among people attending a convention of the American Legion, led to its name.
Whether it's a deliberate attack, as with anthrax, or the outbreak of a slow and silent killer such as HIV, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in the forefront of America's defense.
In a 2011 paper, researchers reported being able to accurately track disease levels for the swine flu outbreak two years earlier by searching for keywords such as flu, vaccine, illness, Tamiflu and pneumonia.
Atlanta (CNN) -- Federal and state health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak in 19 states and the District of Columbia, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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