Titre : | Emerging Disease Syndromic Surveillance for Hurricane Katrina Evacuees Seeking Shelter in Houston's Astrodome and Reliant Park Complex. (2009) |
Auteurs : | Kristy-O MURRAY ; Mary DESVIGNES-KENDRIGK ; Cindy KILBORN ; Erin KOERS ; Valda PAGE ; Herminia PALACIO ; Beatrice-J SELWYN ; Umair-A SHAH ; Division of Epidemiology & Disease Control. School of Public Health. University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Houston. TX. USA ; Harris County Public Health & Environmental Services. Houston. TX. USA |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Public health reports (vol. 124, n° 3, 2009) |
Pagination : | 364-371 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Surveillance ; Maladie émergente ; Catastrophe naturelle |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS 77R0xI7o. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Transmission of infectious diseases became an immediate public health concern when approximately 27,000 New Orleans-area residents evacuated to Houston's Astrodome and Reliant Park Complex following Hurricane Katrina. This article presents a surveillance system that was rapidly developed and implemented for daily tracking of various symptoms in the evacuee population in the Astrodome "megashelter." This system successfully confirmed an outbreak of acute gastroenteritis and became a critical tool in monitoring the course of this outbreak. |