Handbook of Biosurveillance

Provides a coherent and comprehensive account of the theory and practice of real-time human disease outbreak detection, explicitly recognizing the revolution in practices of infection control and public health surveillance.

*Reviews the current mathematical, statistical, and computer science systems for early detection of disease outbreaks

*Provides extensive coverage of existing surveillance data

*Discusses experimental methods for data measurement and evaluation

*Addresses engineering and practical implementation of effective early detection systems

*Includes real case studies