Value of syndromic surveillance within the Armed Forces for early warning during a dengue fever outbreak in French Guiana in 2006.

Jean-Baptiste Meynard (1) , Hervé Chaudet (2) , Gaetan Texier (3) , Vanessa Ardillon (4) , Françoise Ravachol (5) , Xavier Deparis (6) , Henry Jefferson (7) , Philippe Dussart (1) , Jacques Morvan (1) , Jean-Paul Boutin (3)

1 Institut Pasteur de la Guyane
2 Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2
3 IMTSSA - Institut de Médecine Tropicale du Service de Santé des Armées
4 Cellule Inter Régionale d'Epidémiologie Antilles-Guyane
5 Direction de la Santé et du Développement Social de la Guyane
6 EVDG - École du Val de Grâce
7 LSTM - Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Military syndromic surveillance allowed an early warning for this outbreak to be issued, enabling a quicker public health response by the armed forces. Civilian surveillance system has since introduced syndromic surveillance as part of its surveillance strategy. This should enable quicker public health responses in the future.

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Virology

Jean-Baptiste Meynard, Hervé Chaudet, Gaetan Texier, Vanessa Ardillon, Françoise Ravachol, et al.. Value of syndromic surveillance within the Armed Forces for early warning during a dengue fever outbreak in French Guiana in 2006.. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2008, 8, pp.29. ⟨10.1186/1472-6947-8-29⟩. ⟨pasteur-00584102⟩