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Syndromic surveillance: our national insurance

Posted by: Alex Elliot, Posted on: 6 March 2014 - Categories: Health Protection, Protecting the country's health, Real-time syndromic surveillance

...of year. Syndromic surveillance primarily measures the reporting of symptoms caused by anything from flu to norovirus. It’s not simply bugs we look at, either. This surveillance can also measure...

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