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Volume 22, Number 4—April 2016
Dispatch

Low-Cost National Media-Based Surveillance System for Public Health Events, Bangladesh

Trong T. Ao, Mahmudur Rahman, Farhana Haque, Apurba Chakraborty, M. Jahangir Hossain, Sabbir Haider, A.S.M. Alamgir, Jeremy Sobel, Stephen P. Luby, and Emily S. GurleyComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (T.T. Ao, J. Sobel, S.P. Luby); Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh (M. Rahman, F. Haque, A. Chakraborty, S. Haider, A.S.M. Alamgir); icddr,b, Dhaka (F. Haque, A. Chakraborty, M.J. Hossain, S.P. Luby, E.S. Gurley)

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Table 1

Outbreaks first identified by event-based surveillance and investigated by IEDCR, Bangladesh, May 2010–September 2011*

Outbreak no. Date Etiology reported by media Confirmed etiology
1 2010 May Anthrax Cutaneous anthrax
2 2010 Jun Anthrax Cutaneous anthrax
3 2010 Jul Unknown poisoning Unintentional pesticide poisoning
4 2010 Jul Mass psychogenic illness Mass psychogenic illness
5 2010 Jul Suspected pneumonia Bronchiolitis
6 2010 Jul Unknown animal scratch Rabies
7 2010 Jul Food poisoning Food poisoning
8 2010 Jul Diarrhea Diarrhea
9 2010 Aug Cutaneous anthrax Cutaneous anthrax
10 2010 Nov Diarrhea Cholera
11 2010 Nov Suspected high-energy biscuit poisoning Mass psychogenic illness after biscuit consumption
12 2010 Dec Suspected pneumonia Bronchiolitis
13 2010 Dec Suspected rabies Rabies
14 2011 Apr Diarrhea Cholera
15 2011 May Cutaneous anthrax Cutaneous anthrax (5 outbreaks)
16 2011 Jun Cutaneous anthrax Cutaneous anthrax (2 outbreaks)
17† 2011 Jun Unusual duck and geese mortality† Avian influenza, subtype H5N1, in geese, but no human cases detected
18 2011 Jul Cutaneous anthrax Cutaneous anthrax
19 2011 Jul Cutaneous anthrax Cutaneous anthrax
20 2011 Aug Unknown disease Influenza B virus infection
21 2011 Aug Cutaneous anthrax Cutaneous anthrax

*IEDCR, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, Bangladesh.
†Non–human-related outbreak.

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