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¶ … Bioterrorism Surveillance
Challenges to bioterrorism
Challenges to surveillance
Having noted the surveillance methods that can be used in the monitoring of the bioterrorism and the possible intentional infection, there are some challenges that these surveillance systems might encounter. Bearing the nature of the agents that are used in bioterrorism, the challenges that might be experienced by both the syndromic surveillance and cell phone surveillance may have several similarities.
The syndromic surveillance challenges
Bearing the fact that syndromic surveillance depends on the general survey of the trend of a bioterrorism agent, the information that is generated from such a surveillance is quite general and in effect whenever such a surveillance systems comes across an anomalous trend in the health of the public, it would be hard for those implementing it to immediately propose a mass measure like issuance of antibiotics...
There will therefore be a need to move from the nonspecific information and data to individual confirmation that such a trend is caused by anthrax or any other agents. This surveillance is therefore noted to be only a cue to the physicians to be keener to bioterrorism agents and the diseases that they cause before the attack is confirmed or otherwise.
There are chances that this kind of surveillance as well could lead to false alarm among the citizens. This false alarm may be both ways in that due to the nonspecific nature of the data that it presents, it can issue an alert of a bioterrorism act where there is actually none, or on the other hand it can fail to issue an alert where there is actually a case of bioterrorism.
The surveillance also depended on the zip codes in receiving the reports. His is a presumption that the infection and the reporting will occur in the morning or late in the evening when the residents…
References
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