TY - JOUR AU - Vilain, Pascal AU - Maillard, Olivier AU - Raslan-Loubatie, Julien AU - Ahmed Abdou, Mohamed AU - Lernout, Tinne AU - Filleul, Laurent PY - 2013/03/23 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Usefulness of Syndromic Surveillance for Early Outbreak Detection in Small Islands: The Case of Mayotte JF - Online Journal of Public Health Informatics JA - OJPHI VL - 5 IS - 1 SE - Poster Presentations DO - 10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4503 UR - https://ojphi.org/ojs/index.php/ojphi/article/view/4503 SP - AB - Syndromic surveillance can be a useful tool for the early detection outbreak. Mayotte Island is a French overseas department located in the North of Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean. Due to its geographical and socio-demographical situation, the population of this island is widely exposed to infectious diseases. The implementation of a syndromic surveillance system allowed to detect several unusual events as an outbreak of conjunctivitis in March 2012. ER -