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Sun, 2012-01-22 04:44 — mdmcdonald
The Health Collaboratory is focused on improving the health of San Franciscans.

The mission of the Health Collaboratory is to engage forward thining approaches to improving the health of San Franciscans.

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Yosemite Hantavirus: U.S. Officials Send Warnings To Dozens Of Countries

Thu, 2012-09-06 12:54 — Maeryn Obley

huffingtonpost.com - September 5th, 2012 - Ronnie Cohen

U.S. health officials have sent warnings to 39 other countries that their citizens who stayed in Yosemite National Park tent cabins this summer may have been exposed to a deadly mouse-borne hantavirus, a park service epidemiologist said on Tuesday.

Of the 10,000 people thought to be at risk of contracting hantavirus pulmonary syndrome from their stays in Yosemite between June and August, some 2,500 live outside the United States, Dr. David Wong told Reuters in an interview.

Wong said U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials notified 39 countries over the weekend, most of them in the European Union, that their residents may have been exposed to the deadly virus.

Disease Sleuths Surf For Outbreaks Online

Thu, 2012-03-01 21:07 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Source: NPR - Credit: Adam Cole, Maggie Starbard

by Adam Cole - npr.org - February 24, 2012

. . . "Surveillance is one of the cornerstones of public health," says Philip Polgreen, an epidemiologist at the University of Iowa. "It all depends on having not only accurate data, but timely data."

Public health officials have been trying to speed up their responses to disease outbreaks since, well, they started responding to outbreaks.

There's still plenty of room for improvement.

The current system requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to compile reports about from physicians and labs all over the country — and that can take a while. There's typically a week-long delay between an outbreak and the release of an official report.

To get an early read on things, epidemiologists look for the first clues of illness — a rise in thermometer sales or increased chatter on hospital phone lines. Now, they're tapping into the Internet. . . .

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    • Health Matters in San Francisco

    Tue, 2012-01-24 11:55 — mdmcdonald

    San Francisco has some of the healthiest neighborhoods in the nation according to U.S. health statistics.  What specifically makes San Francisco's neighborhoods healthy? What are their current challenges negatively impacting the health or San Franciscans?

    How is your neighborhood doing?  What do you need to work on in your neighborhood to improve the health of your community?

     

    Take a look:

    http://www.healthmattersinsf.org/index.php

     

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