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Volume 24, Number 9—September 2018
Synopsis

Event-Based Surveillance at Community and Healthcare Facilities, Vietnam, 2016–2017

Alexey Clara1, Trang T. Do1, Anh T.P. Dao, Phu D. Tran, Tan Q. Dang, Quang D. Tran, Nghia D. Ngu, Tu H. Ngo, Hung C. Phan, Thuy T.P. Nguyen, Anh T. Lai, Dung T. Nguyen, My K. Nguyen, Hieu T.M. Nguyen, Steven Becknell, Christina Bernadotte, Huyen T. Nguyen, Quoc C. Nguyen, Anthony W. Mounts, and S. Arunmozhi BalajeeComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (A. Clara, T.T. Do, A.T.P. Dao, S. Becknell, A.W. Mounts, S.A. Balajee); General Department of Preventive Medicine, Hanoi, Vietnam (P.D. Tran, T.Q. Dang, Q.D. Tran); National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi (N.D. Ngu, T.H. Ngo); Pasteur Institute, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (H.C. Phan, T.T.P. Nguyen); Preventive Medicine Center, Nam Dinh, Vietnam (A.T. Lai); Preventive Medicine Center, Quang Ninh, Vietnam (D.T. Nguyen); Preventive Medicine Center, An Giang, Vietnam (M.K. Nguyen); Preventive Medicine Center, Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Vietnam (H.T.M. Nguyen); Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, Seattle, Washington, USA (C. Bernadotte, H.T. Nguyen, Q.C. Nguyen)

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Table 6

Revised signals for community and healthcare facilities in provinces participating in event-based surveillance pilot project, Vietnam, June 2017

Facility type Signal
Community 1 child <15 y of age with
•Sudden weakness of limbs
•Fever, rash, respiratory infection, and possibly red eyes
A single case severe enough to require hospital admission or causing death of any of the following:
•>3 rice watery stools in 24 h in any person >5 y of age with dehydration
•A new respiratory infection with fever in a person who has traveled abroad in the past 14 d
•A new respiratory infection with fever after contact with live poultry
•Illness within 14 d after vaccination
•Illness never seen before or rare symptoms in the community
>2 hospitalized persons and/or death with similar type of symptoms occurring in the same community, school, or workplace in the same 7-d period
Unexpected large numbers of
•Children absent from school because of the same illness in the same 7-d period
•Sales at pharmacies of many people buying medicines for the same kind of illness
•People sick with the similar type of symptoms at the same time
•Deaths of poultry or other domestic animals
A dog that is suspected to be rabid or
•A sick dog that has bitten someone
•Any dog that has bitten >2 persons in the past 7 d
Healthcare facility Severe illness requiring hospital admission in healthcare workers after they cared for patients with similar symptoms
>2 cases of severe acute respiratory infections within 7 d in the same community or household
Large unexpected, sudden increases in admissions for any illness of the same type, including patients in intensive care units
Severe, unusual, unexplainable illness, including failure to respond to standard treatment

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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