Operation Cataract helped cut the backlog which was blamed on the Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Cumbria.
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.
Researchers have developed software which could predict future events such as disease outbreak.
The new body says it has two immediate issues to fight both of which have emerged as a result of the disease outbreak.
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 movie has me thinking about the constant tap dance that infectious disease experts must do to get attention for their field scaring the public one moment, calming it the next because of the gigantic market failure in our health care system that keeps us from constantly preparing for an infectious disease outbreak.
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Officials said they are taking steps to limit the outbreak of disease in the crowded shelters, whose residents could prove susceptible.
The natives' numbers were down: they were just recovering from a massive outbreak of disease, probably passed on by European traders.
Sceptics wonder if it is merely another of many efforts to ensure that nothing, particularly an outbreak of disease, can cast a shadow on the Beijing Olympics in August.
An outbreak of the disease in Philadelphia in 1976, largely among people attending a convention of the American Legion, led to its name.
In November an outbreak of the disease in the UK led to a complete ban on the importation of ash to the island.
There was a fresh outbreak of the disease reported in Powys on Monday, bringing the total of confirmed cases for Wales to 91.
The Meningitis Trust was formed in 1985 after a group of parents got together following an outbreak of the disease in Stroud and Stonehouse.
Public health authorities have mined medical data to spot the outbreak of infectious disease, and credit-card companies have found fraudulent credit-card purchases with the method, among other applications.
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"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.
The Chinese government is actively investigating this outbreak and has heightened disease surveillance.
Mrs Beckett confirmed vaccination would form part of the government's strategy for containing the disease in the event of another outbreak.
Rules on displaying hot tubs in shops and public places should be reviewed, according to a report into a fatal outbreak of Legionnaires' disease.
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.
Tourism here is down, and thousands of jobs got axed when the U.S. slapped tariffs on exports of softwood and then banned Canadian beef after an outbreak of mad cow 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.
The U.S. has not only been priced out of those beef markets, but also faced sanitary bans due to an outbreak of mad cow disease in 2003 which put Brazil at No. 1.
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.
Experts have warned that if ash dieback was to become widely established in the UK, the impact could be as serious as the 1970s outbreak of Dutch elm disease, which saw millions of trees destroyed.
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.
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