That’s because between 15,000 and 20,000 people lived in Pompeii and Herculaneum, and the majority of them survived Vesuvius’ catastrophic eruption. One of the survivors, a man named Cornelius Fuscus later died in what the Romans called Asia (what is now Romania) on a military campaign. Is the volcano thatRead More →

Passive surveillance often gathers disease data from all potential reporting health care workers. … Passive surveillance is the most common type of surveillance in humanitarian emergencies. Most surveillance for communicable diseases is passive. What is a syndromic surveillance system? Syndromic surveillance systems seek to use existing health data in realRead More →