Infectious Disease Surveillance After Earthquake

 
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Region: 
Asia-Pacific
Country: 
China
Partners: 
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention;
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A landline-based system for reporting the occurrence of epidemic-prone diseases was disrupted after the strong earthquake in Sichuan province in 2008. An emergency reporting system based on mobile phones was developed, using SMS to send information to a national database.

Further reading: 

Changhong Yang et al. 2009, Use of mobile phones in an emergency reporting system for infectious disease surveillance after the Sichuan earthquake in China, Bulletin of the World Health Organization 87:619-623

[added Jan 2010]

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