One Lunar Health

One Lunar Health

Carl Koppeschaar
BDPH 56, Moon City, 25 October 2069
Energy crisis
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Needed in 2080/90: 98 TW energy
Available: 90 TW
Possible end of industrial development
Solution: extraterrestrial energy source
Energy from the Moon
• Solar energy
• Helium-3
Lunar Solar Power
1 tonne helium-3
=
130 milion barrels oil
=
$ 300 billion
100 tonnes helium-3
=
$ 30 trillion
Costs of 5 space shuttle
loads of 20 tons: $ 5 billion
Lunar Explorers Society
Road map to the lunar future
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2002-2010: satellites and landers
2010-2015: robot missions
2015: manned landings
2020: permanently manned moonbase
2030: more moonbases and industry
2040: lunar villages
2060: lunar cities
2069: Republic of the Moon
2069 Lunar Olympic Games

Needed: Mass Gathering Medicine
Continuous surveillance for
outbreaks of infectious diseases
One Martian
Health
One Alien Health …

There might be zillions of
viruses and other pathogens
out there!
Disease Radar: self-reported participatory surveillance for influenza
and other diseases.

Carl Koppeschaar
Big Data and Public Health, Rio de Janeiro – October 25, 2013
2003: The Great Influenza Survey
Project to raise the public
awareness on flu
Interactive and participatory combination of
science and communication informing the
general audience on influenza
Inviting people to become ‘flu-reporters’,
filling in their health status voluntarily every
week in order to help researchers in finding
more information on the spread of the
influenza virus
Recruitment
Media attention
Posters, flyers
School material
Flu games
How to keep participants ?
Weekly newsletters with the latest ‘flu news’
Informative website: offering ‘flu news’, ‘flu games’,
background information, expert interviews, free
educational material at all levels for downloading, etc.
Focus on different target groups: laymen, press, school
children and their teachers, families, and to a smaller
extent, professional health care workers
Communicate results: participants help scientists
Reliable and easily accessible information: expert
proven information, maps and graphs
Fast and simple survey
Single intake
questionnaire:
Postal code
Age

Weekly newsletter
+ personal
symptom’s
questionnaire:
Symptoms

Smoker

−

Cough

Transportation

−

Fever

Vaccine

−

Sneezing

Allergy

−

Muscle pain

−

...

…
…

Start of symptoms
GP consultation
Community of ‘flu-reporters’

Blue =
common cold
Red = ILI
(influenza-like
illness)
Participants in all age groups
Correction for age
Loyal participation
Early results

With pet animals

Without pet animals

car
Bicycle

Public transport

Families with children
Families without children
“Female flu”
Incidence in different age groups
Risk groups in smoking, chronic diseases, but

not in terms of transport means!

Significantly more ILI in:
• children: OR = 1.8 [1.7-2.0]
• parents: OR = 1.4 [1.4-1.5]
Regional transmission of the flu
Flu activity by region
Start of the seasonal epidemic

Early signal
> 350 (95%)

Baseline

Onset epidemic

> 500 (99%)
Early media attention
Bias in GP’s reporting (1)

Visits many days after start of illness
Bias in GP’s reporting (2)

Seniors more often visit their GP
Bias in GP’s reporting (3)

Changes in visits to GP due to media
reporting (2009 pandemic)
Faster than GP’s sentinel posts
The Netherlands: on average more than 2 weeks

A country like the US would
need at least 400,000
participants to obtain similar
results!
How many subgroups of the
population do we need to
obtain reliable results?
What can still be improved?
1. Number of participants
2. Daily reporting
3. Children

Number of
participants
per country

Number of participants
Italy: Low reliability at
0.002% of the population
Daily reporting

1. Number of participants
2.

3. Children

Number of participants
Netherlands and Belgium: e-mail reminders
+ news letters sent out through the week

Number of participants
Transmission on a European scale
From west to east and from south to north
Paget WJ, Marquet R, Meijer A, Van der Velden J: Influenza activity in Europe during eight seasons (1999-2007): an
evaluation of the indicators used to measure activity and an assessment to the timing, lenght and course of peak
activity (spread) across Europe. BMC Infectious Diseases, 2007; 7: 141.
What is the true role of transportation?
Khan, Arino, Hu, Raposo, Sears,
Calderon, et al.: Spread of a novel
influenza A (H1N1) virus via global
airline transportation. N. Engl. J.
Med. 361(2): 212–4. 2009.

Van den Broeck, Gioannini, Gonçalves, Quaggiotto, Colizza, Vespignani: The
GLEaMviz computational tool, a publicly available software to explore realistic epidemic
spreading scenarios at the global scale. BMC Infect. Dis. 11:37. 2011.

Sander van Noort, De Grote Griepmeting/Gripenet
How does seasonal flu spread?

1.
2.
3.
4.

Nursery school (crèche, Kindergarten)
Brothers and sisters => primary schools
Mothers (traditional role)
Fathers (commuters)

Sander van Noort
Seasonal flu as a winter disease
Lipid ordering may contribute to viral stability at lower
temperatures which is critical for airborne transmission

Sander van Noort

Flu viruses survive longer and are more easily transmitted
when humidity levels are low
Hurricanes and monsoons
Influenza activity appears to coincide with the rainy season in
some tropical countries
Do Earth’s seasons cause a
“flu conveyor belt”?

Rambaut, Pybus, Nelson, Viboud, Taubenberger, Holmes:The genomic and
epidemiological dynamics of human influenza A virus. Nature 453 (7195):
615–9. 2008.

Bahl, Nelson, Chan, et al. Temporally structured
metapopulation dynamics and persistence of influenza
A H3N2 virus in humans. Proc Natl. Acad Sci. USA
108(48):19359–64. 2011.
Data on tropical influenza remain scarce!
• Influenza is quite likely to be
under-reported in the tropics
because there are so many
other more serious diseases.
• Flu is often being mistaken for
malaria in the tropics.
• Assumptions about the low
impact of flu in the tropics
may also be due to outbreaks
which happen at
unpredictable and irregular
intervals.
• In most tropical countries
collecting data is not easy.

Cécile Viboud, Wladimir J. Alonso,
Lone Simonsen: Influenza in Tropical
Regions. PLoS Medicine, March 7,
2006.
“Highways’ in a global
circulation pattern
Portugal

Belgium

Netherlands
Lisbon, February 2008
(Epi-Forecast)
“A multidisciplinary research effort aimed at developing the
appropriate framework of tools and knowledge needed for
the design of epidemic forecast infrastructures to be used
by epidemiologists and public health scientists.”
Influenzanet.eu
Denmark,
2013

2013

2013
2012/13
More than ILI alone
Individual symptoms
Vaccination uptake
Risc groups
Vaccine efficiency
Side effects of the flu jab
Where to focus next?
• Contact paterns
Mobile apps, Facebook, Twitter
• Swabs for virology
Sweden, Belgium 2012
• Survey: social and societal impacts of outbreaks of re-emerging
infectious diseases (proposal phase)
• Cooperation with non-European countries
VS (Flu Near You), Australia (Flu Tracking)… Central America, Brasil,
Asia, India, Africa
• One Health approach
Human (infectious) diseases, slow epidemics, zoonoses
Flu mobile app

Flu
app
Future technology

Full medical apps

Lab on a chip

Flu
app
International conferences
Digital Disease Detection I, Harvard Medical School,
Boston, USA
International Workshop on Participatory Surveillance I,
San Francisco, USA
Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2013, Bangkok,
Thailand
4th International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and
Surveillance - IMED 2013, Vienna, Austria
International Workshop on Participatory Surveillance II,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
WWW 2013 - Participatory Health in the Digital Age, Rio
de Janeiro, Brasil
International Workshop on Digital Epidemiology, Torino,
Italy
EPIHACK, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Digital Disease Detection II, San Francisco, USA
Big Data and Public Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
International Workshop on
Participatory Surveillance, July 2012
Larry
Brilliant

“I am thrilled! I’m
witnessing the
birth of a new
science.
I foresee a whole
new magazine,
on self-reported
participatory
surveillance."
2nd International Participatory
2nd International Workshop onWorkshop
Surveillance (IWOPS 2), Amsterdam, April 2013
on Participatory Surveillance

Influenzanet (EU) – Flu AMSTERDAM, 15-17 APRIL 2013
Near You (USA) – Flutracking (Australia)
Platform for seasonal influenza
Checklist for early signals of outbreaks
2nd International Workshop
EPIHACK, Phnom Penh, August 2013

on Participatory Surveillance

AMSTERDAM, 15-17 APRIL 2013
2nd International Workshop
on Participatory Surveillance

Doctor Me
(Thailand)

AMSTERDAM, 15-17 APRIL 2013
2nd International organization
Flu surveillance network Workshop
on Participatory Surveillance

AMSTERDAM, 15-17 APRIL 2013
Great Pneumonia Survey (GLM)
GLM- Real Time Monitoring of
Community Acquired Pneumonia

Week 1 2013

Week 2 2013

Week 3 2013

Week 4 2013
GLM : Goals
Scientific goals:
• Early detection of abnormal repiratory infectious “outbreaks”
• Measuring the impact of CAP in the Dutch population
• Exploring seasonal influences on infectious respiratory disease
• Exploring effect of pneumococcal vaccination on disease impact
Public information goal:
• Informing patients and health care workers on infectious respiratory disease
GLM - Figures
•

24 Months online

• 1,724 unique participants
• 35 % female, 65% male
• Mean age 66 yrs (SD 17)
• 13,000 measurements
GLM – Take home messages
• Real time monitoring system for Community Acquired Pneumonia
• Possible tool for early detection of legionella and Q-fever
• Scientific analyses in progress: Publication of 1st results Dec. 2013

More info (Dutch): www.degrotelongontstekingmeting.nl
GLM - Team
Carl Koppeschaar
Science & content

Antwan Wiersma
Webmaster &
technical support

Ronald
Smallenburg
Finance &
organisation

Dirk-Jan Enklaar
Analyses & reports

Advisory Board: Prof. Dr. Marc J.M. Bonten, Dr. Menno M. van der Eerden, Prof.dr. Jan C. Grutters, Dr.
René E. Jonkers, Prof. Dr. Mattijs E. Numans, Prof. Dr. Jan M. Prins, Prof. Dr. Theo M.J. Verheij
“Disease radar”
(Infectious) diseases & behaviour
1. Self diagnosis
2. Surveillance of pertussis and mumps
(waning immunities), Lyme, hay
fever, norovirus, Q fever, etc.
3. Stress related to labor, slow
epidemics (obesity)
4. Medication and side effects
Real time
maps
Prediagnostic
tool
(in close cooperation
with the Dutch
College of General
Practitioners (NHG)

Lifestyle

Test yourself

Medical
encyclopedia
Mobile app
Discussion
forum

Top ten of
health issues
Also includes zoonoses
Over 60% of human
pathogens originate
from animals: influenza
virus H5N1, H3N7,
anthrax, SARS, HIV,
leptospirosis, rabies,
Lyme, Nipah virus,
dengue, malaria,
hantavirus, MERS
coronavirus, …
Lifestyle & Prevention
With our Disease Radar we want to build an

Online Health Community
Robust system

Integrated:

• Participatory

National institute for Public Health

• Real time

Community Health Services

• Geographic information

College of General Practitioners

• Integrated

Ministry of Health

• Threat verification

ProMed, HealthMap, CORDS

• Early signal detection

CDC, ECDC, WHO, FAO
Threat verification (1)
Measles in the Netherlands
Threat verification (2)
Mumps amongst students in the Netherlands
Threat verification (3)
Q fever in the Netherlands
Retrospective analysis of hospital discharge data [van den Wijngaard et al.
2011 Epi. & Inf.] showed several plausible Q-fever clusters preceding the
recognised beginning of the outbreak in 2007, 2006 and even in 2005,
suggesting that had real-time syndromic surveillance been in place, the Qfever clusters could have been detected up to two years earlier.

> 4,000 sick
19 fatal
> 800 chronic
Early signal detection
Influenzanet.eu

Analysis:
Sander van Noort
Compare with Google Flutrends
Sustainability
Disease Radar could have been in operation more than a
year ago should we have had the proper funding!

• Government

Economic crisis

• Pharmaceutical companies

Less money available for PR

• Advertising

Small money

• Grants

Zoosurv in the Netherlands?

• Health insurance companies

Millions of insured persons

• Foundations

These could help a lot
References
R.L. Marquet, A.I.M. Bartelds, S.P. van Noort, C.E. Koppeschaar, J. Paget, F.G. Schellevis, J. van
der Zee: Internet-based monitoring of influenza-like illness (ILI) in the general population of
the Netherlands during influenza seasons 2003-2004, BMC Public Health 2006, 6:242.
S.P. van Noort, M. Muehlen, H. Rebelo de Andrade, C. Koppeschaar, J.M. Lima Lourenço,
M.G.M. Gomes: Gripenet: an internet-based system to monitor influenza-like illness
uniformly across Europe, Eurosurveillance, Volume 12, Issue 7-8, July/August, 2007.
IHM Friesema, CE Koppeschaar, GA Donker, F Dijkstra, SP van Noort, R Smallenburg, W van
der Hoek, MAB van der Sande: Internet-based monitoring of influenza-like illness in the
general population: experience of five influenza seasons in the Netherlands, Vaccine,
Volume 27, Number 45, 23 October 2009, pp. 6353-6357. ISSN 0264-410X.
Sander P. van Noort, Ricardo Águas, Flávio Coelho, Cláudia Codeço, Daniela Paolotti, Carl E.
Koppeschaar & M. Gabriela M. Gomes: Influenzanet: ILI trends, behaviour and risk factors in
cohorts of internet volunteers, 2003 - 2013. In revision.
Marit M.A. de Lange, Adam Meijer, Ingrid H.M. Friesema, Gé A. Donker, Carl E. Koppeschaar,
Wim van der Hoek: Comparison of five surveillance systems of influenza-like illness during
the influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 virus pandemic and their link to media attention. BMC Public
Health, 2013, 13:881 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-13-881.
Paolo Bajardi, Daniela Paolotti, Lorenzo Richiardi, Alessandro Vespignani, Sebastian Funk, Ken
Eames, John Edmunds, Clement Turbelin, Marion Debin, Vittoria Colizza, Ronald Smallenburg,
Carl Koppeschaar, Ana Franco, Vitor Faustino, Annasara Carnahan: Effect of recruitment
methods on attrition in Internet-based studies. Submitted.
Contact:
carl@science-in-action.nl

Carl koppeschaar: Disease Radar: Measuring and Forecasting the Spread of Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses

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    One Lunar Health OneLunar Health Carl Koppeschaar BDPH 56, Moon City, 25 October 2069
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    Energy crisis • • • • Needed in2080/90: 98 TW energy Available: 90 TW Possible end of industrial development Solution: extraterrestrial energy source
  • 3.
    Energy from theMoon • Solar energy • Helium-3
  • 4.
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    1 tonne helium-3 = 130milion barrels oil = $ 300 billion 100 tonnes helium-3 = $ 30 trillion Costs of 5 space shuttle loads of 20 tons: $ 5 billion
  • 10.
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    Road map tothe lunar future • • • • • • • • 2002-2010: satellites and landers 2010-2015: robot missions 2015: manned landings 2020: permanently manned moonbase 2030: more moonbases and industry 2040: lunar villages 2060: lunar cities 2069: Republic of the Moon
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    2069 Lunar OlympicGames Needed: Mass Gathering Medicine
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    One Alien Health… There might be zillions of viruses and other pathogens out there!
  • 23.
    Disease Radar: self-reportedparticipatory surveillance for influenza and other diseases. Carl Koppeschaar Big Data and Public Health, Rio de Janeiro – October 25, 2013
  • 24.
    2003: The GreatInfluenza Survey
  • 25.
    Project to raisethe public awareness on flu Interactive and participatory combination of science and communication informing the general audience on influenza Inviting people to become ‘flu-reporters’, filling in their health status voluntarily every week in order to help researchers in finding more information on the spread of the influenza virus
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    How to keepparticipants ? Weekly newsletters with the latest ‘flu news’ Informative website: offering ‘flu news’, ‘flu games’, background information, expert interviews, free educational material at all levels for downloading, etc. Focus on different target groups: laymen, press, school children and their teachers, families, and to a smaller extent, professional health care workers Communicate results: participants help scientists Reliable and easily accessible information: expert proven information, maps and graphs
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    Fast and simplesurvey Single intake questionnaire: Postal code Age Weekly newsletter + personal symptom’s questionnaire: Symptoms Smoker − Cough Transportation − Fever Vaccine − Sneezing Allergy − Muscle pain − ... … … Start of symptoms GP consultation
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    Community of ‘flu-reporters’ Blue= common cold Red = ILI (influenza-like illness)
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    Early results With petanimals Without pet animals car Bicycle Public transport Families with children Families without children
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    Risk groups insmoking, chronic diseases, but not in terms of transport means! Significantly more ILI in: • children: OR = 1.8 [1.7-2.0] • parents: OR = 1.4 [1.4-1.5]
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    Start of theseasonal epidemic Early signal > 350 (95%) Baseline Onset epidemic > 500 (99%)
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    Bias in GP’sreporting (1) Visits many days after start of illness
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    Bias in GP’sreporting (2) Seniors more often visit their GP
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    Bias in GP’sreporting (3) Changes in visits to GP due to media reporting (2009 pandemic)
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    Faster than GP’ssentinel posts The Netherlands: on average more than 2 weeks A country like the US would need at least 400,000 participants to obtain similar results! How many subgroups of the population do we need to obtain reliable results?
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    What can stillbe improved? 1. Number of participants 2. Daily reporting 3. Children Number of participants per country Number of participants
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    Italy: Low reliabilityat 0.002% of the population Daily reporting 1. Number of participants 2. 3. Children Number of participants
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    Netherlands and Belgium:e-mail reminders + news letters sent out through the week Number of participants
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    Transmission on aEuropean scale
  • 51.
    From west toeast and from south to north Paget WJ, Marquet R, Meijer A, Van der Velden J: Influenza activity in Europe during eight seasons (1999-2007): an evaluation of the indicators used to measure activity and an assessment to the timing, lenght and course of peak activity (spread) across Europe. BMC Infectious Diseases, 2007; 7: 141.
  • 52.
    What is thetrue role of transportation? Khan, Arino, Hu, Raposo, Sears, Calderon, et al.: Spread of a novel influenza A (H1N1) virus via global airline transportation. N. Engl. J. Med. 361(2): 212–4. 2009. Van den Broeck, Gioannini, Gonçalves, Quaggiotto, Colizza, Vespignani: The GLEaMviz computational tool, a publicly available software to explore realistic epidemic spreading scenarios at the global scale. BMC Infect. Dis. 11:37. 2011. Sander van Noort, De Grote Griepmeting/Gripenet
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    How does seasonalflu spread? 1. 2. 3. 4. Nursery school (crèche, Kindergarten) Brothers and sisters => primary schools Mothers (traditional role) Fathers (commuters) Sander van Noort
  • 54.
    Seasonal flu asa winter disease Lipid ordering may contribute to viral stability at lower temperatures which is critical for airborne transmission Sander van Noort Flu viruses survive longer and are more easily transmitted when humidity levels are low
  • 55.
    Hurricanes and monsoons Influenzaactivity appears to coincide with the rainy season in some tropical countries
  • 56.
    Do Earth’s seasonscause a “flu conveyor belt”? Rambaut, Pybus, Nelson, Viboud, Taubenberger, Holmes:The genomic and epidemiological dynamics of human influenza A virus. Nature 453 (7195): 615–9. 2008. Bahl, Nelson, Chan, et al. Temporally structured metapopulation dynamics and persistence of influenza A H3N2 virus in humans. Proc Natl. Acad Sci. USA 108(48):19359–64. 2011.
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    Data on tropicalinfluenza remain scarce! • Influenza is quite likely to be under-reported in the tropics because there are so many other more serious diseases. • Flu is often being mistaken for malaria in the tropics. • Assumptions about the low impact of flu in the tropics may also be due to outbreaks which happen at unpredictable and irregular intervals. • In most tropical countries collecting data is not easy. Cécile Viboud, Wladimir J. Alonso, Lone Simonsen: Influenza in Tropical Regions. PLoS Medicine, March 7, 2006.
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    “Highways’ in aglobal circulation pattern
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    “A multidisciplinary researcheffort aimed at developing the appropriate framework of tools and knowledge needed for the design of epidemic forecast infrastructures to be used by epidemiologists and public health scientists.”
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    Side effects ofthe flu jab
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    Where to focusnext? • Contact paterns Mobile apps, Facebook, Twitter • Swabs for virology Sweden, Belgium 2012 • Survey: social and societal impacts of outbreaks of re-emerging infectious diseases (proposal phase) • Cooperation with non-European countries VS (Flu Near You), Australia (Flu Tracking)… Central America, Brasil, Asia, India, Africa • One Health approach Human (infectious) diseases, slow epidemics, zoonoses
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    Future technology Full medicalapps Lab on a chip Flu app
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    International conferences Digital DiseaseDetection I, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA International Workshop on Participatory Surveillance I, San Francisco, USA Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2013, Bangkok, Thailand 4th International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance - IMED 2013, Vienna, Austria International Workshop on Participatory Surveillance II, Amsterdam, the Netherlands WWW 2013 - Participatory Health in the Digital Age, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil International Workshop on Digital Epidemiology, Torino, Italy EPIHACK, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Digital Disease Detection II, San Francisco, USA Big Data and Public Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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    International Workshop on ParticipatorySurveillance, July 2012 Larry Brilliant “I am thrilled! I’m witnessing the birth of a new science. I foresee a whole new magazine, on self-reported participatory surveillance."
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    2nd International Participatory 2ndInternational Workshop onWorkshop Surveillance (IWOPS 2), Amsterdam, April 2013 on Participatory Surveillance Influenzanet (EU) – Flu AMSTERDAM, 15-17 APRIL 2013 Near You (USA) – Flutracking (Australia)
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    Checklist for earlysignals of outbreaks
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    2nd International Workshop EPIHACK,Phnom Penh, August 2013 on Participatory Surveillance AMSTERDAM, 15-17 APRIL 2013
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    2nd International Workshop onParticipatory Surveillance Doctor Me (Thailand) AMSTERDAM, 15-17 APRIL 2013
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    2nd International organization Flusurveillance network Workshop on Participatory Surveillance AMSTERDAM, 15-17 APRIL 2013
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    GLM- Real TimeMonitoring of Community Acquired Pneumonia Week 1 2013 Week 2 2013 Week 3 2013 Week 4 2013
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    GLM : Goals Scientificgoals: • Early detection of abnormal repiratory infectious “outbreaks” • Measuring the impact of CAP in the Dutch population • Exploring seasonal influences on infectious respiratory disease • Exploring effect of pneumococcal vaccination on disease impact Public information goal: • Informing patients and health care workers on infectious respiratory disease
  • 84.
    GLM - Figures • 24Months online • 1,724 unique participants • 35 % female, 65% male • Mean age 66 yrs (SD 17) • 13,000 measurements
  • 85.
    GLM – Takehome messages • Real time monitoring system for Community Acquired Pneumonia • Possible tool for early detection of legionella and Q-fever • Scientific analyses in progress: Publication of 1st results Dec. 2013 More info (Dutch): www.degrotelongontstekingmeting.nl
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    GLM - Team CarlKoppeschaar Science & content Antwan Wiersma Webmaster & technical support Ronald Smallenburg Finance & organisation Dirk-Jan Enklaar Analyses & reports Advisory Board: Prof. Dr. Marc J.M. Bonten, Dr. Menno M. van der Eerden, Prof.dr. Jan C. Grutters, Dr. René E. Jonkers, Prof. Dr. Mattijs E. Numans, Prof. Dr. Jan M. Prins, Prof. Dr. Theo M.J. Verheij
  • 88.
    “Disease radar” (Infectious) diseases& behaviour 1. Self diagnosis 2. Surveillance of pertussis and mumps (waning immunities), Lyme, hay fever, norovirus, Q fever, etc. 3. Stress related to labor, slow epidemics (obesity) 4. Medication and side effects
  • 89.
    Real time maps Prediagnostic tool (in closecooperation with the Dutch College of General Practitioners (NHG) Lifestyle Test yourself Medical encyclopedia Mobile app Discussion forum Top ten of health issues
  • 90.
    Also includes zoonoses Over60% of human pathogens originate from animals: influenza virus H5N1, H3N7, anthrax, SARS, HIV, leptospirosis, rabies, Lyme, Nipah virus, dengue, malaria, hantavirus, MERS coronavirus, …
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    With our DiseaseRadar we want to build an Online Health Community Robust system Integrated: • Participatory National institute for Public Health • Real time Community Health Services • Geographic information College of General Practitioners • Integrated Ministry of Health • Threat verification ProMed, HealthMap, CORDS • Early signal detection CDC, ECDC, WHO, FAO
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    Threat verification (2) Mumpsamongst students in the Netherlands
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    Threat verification (3) Qfever in the Netherlands Retrospective analysis of hospital discharge data [van den Wijngaard et al. 2011 Epi. & Inf.] showed several plausible Q-fever clusters preceding the recognised beginning of the outbreak in 2007, 2006 and even in 2005, suggesting that had real-time syndromic surveillance been in place, the Qfever clusters could have been detected up to two years earlier. > 4,000 sick 19 fatal > 800 chronic
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    Sustainability Disease Radar couldhave been in operation more than a year ago should we have had the proper funding! • Government Economic crisis • Pharmaceutical companies Less money available for PR • Advertising Small money • Grants Zoosurv in the Netherlands? • Health insurance companies Millions of insured persons • Foundations These could help a lot
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