About the Authors
- Philippe Barboza
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* E-mail: p.barboza@invs.sante.fr
Affiliation International Department, French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (Institut de Veille Sanitaire), Saint Maurice, France
- Laetitia Vaillant
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Affiliation International Department, French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (Institut de Veille Sanitaire), Saint Maurice, France
- Abla Mawudeku
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Affiliation Situational Awareness Section, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- Noele P. Nelson
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America
- David M. Hartley
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C, United States of America
- Lawrence C. Madoff
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Affiliation ProMED-mail, International Society for Infectious Diseases, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Jens P. Linge
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Affiliation Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy
- Nigel Collier
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Affiliation National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
- John S. Brownstein
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Affiliation Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Roman Yangarber
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Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Pascal Astagneau
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Affiliation Department of Public Health, Pierre et Marie Curie University School of Medicine, Paris, France
- on behalf of the Early Alerting, Reporting Project of the Global Health Security Initiative
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¶Membership of the Early Alerting and Reporting Project of the Global Health Security Initiative is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PB LV AM PA. Performed the experiments: PB LV. Analyzed the data: PB LV PA. Wrote the paper: PB LV AM NPN DMH LCM JPL NC JSB RY PA.