Open AccessFrom epidemiological surveillance to European integration
Author(s) -
F Tissot
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
euro surveillance/eurosurveillance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.766
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1560-7917
pISSN - 1025-496X
DOI - 10.2807/esm.04.09.00078-en
Subject(s) - communicable disease , epidemiology , outbreak , epidemiological surveillance , disease surveillance , refugee , disease control , environmental health , medicine , medical emergency , political science , geography , public health , virology , pathology , law
Between March and June 1999, 442 000 Kosovar refugees arrived in Albania. The national surveillance system was unprepared for this and an emergency communicable disease surveillance system was set up to detect and control potential outbreaks among the ref