Monitoring Outbreaks in People
Should a pandemic develop, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) has extensive human monitoring and reporting systems in place that include medical
practitioners, hospitals and local health departments to detect and monitor flu outbreaks, such as, sentinel physician provider surveillance, RODS (real-time outbreak
and disease surveillance system) surveillance and year-round laboratory testing capability.
Worldwide Monitoring Efforts
The World Health Organization(WHO), National Institutes of Health and epidemiologists from many other organizations are monitoring
data to predict where and how a disease might spread. A primary goal of monitoring is to identify any outbreak of human-to-human transmission quickly so health
officials can attempt to contain and control the outbreak wherever it occurs.
Use the links on the right for the most recent outbreak information from federal
and international organizations.
Last Updated May 6, 2009
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