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Influenza surveillance in Europe and its future reviewed.
2003 JUL 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A report on the evolution of influenza surveillance in Europe and prospects for the next 10 years has been published in the journal Vaccine.
"This report traces the evolution of surveillance programs for influenza in the United Kingdom and countries of western Europe since the World Health Organization (WHO) resolution to establish an international influenza reference center in 1947. The introduction of clinical surveillance schemes in the late 1960s and their gradual integration with laboratory-based surveillance is described, with particular emphasis on the need for integrated surveillance based on population-specific denominators," scientists in England and the Netherlands report.
"The function of the European Influenza Surveillance Scheme (EISS), its work program in the last five years, and the likely direction of future developments is outlined," wrote Douglas M. Fleming and colleagues at the Royal College of General Practitioners in the U. K. and the Netherlands ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Influenza surveillance in Europe and its future reviewed.