Tailored intelligence to detect unusual epidemic activity following the explosion at Vector, Russia

• Main Authors: C Raina MacIntyre (Author), Xin Chen (Author), Mohana Kunasekaran (Author), Anjali Kannan (Author), Veethika Nayak (Author), Khulan Bayaraa (Author), Elena Sitnikova (Author), Phi Yen Nguyen (Author), Tracey German (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of New South Wales, 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We used open source data from the Epiwatch observatory to monitor for early disease signals in Russia and surrounding countries following an explosion at a BSL 4 laboratory, Vector, in Siberia in September 2019. Upon news of the explosion at Vector on September 16th 2019, the Epiwatch team added the...