Daily Reportable Disease Spatiotemporal Cluster Detection, New York City, New York, USA, 2014–2015

Abstract

Each day, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene uses the free SaTScan software to apply prospective space–time permutation scan statistics to strengthen early outbreak detection for 35 reportable diseases. This method prompted early detection of outbreaks of community-acquired legionellosis and shigellosis.

Keywords

• communicable diseases
• disease clustering
• outbreaks
• detection
• epidemiology
• surveillance