... that supports operations by a large number of distributed organisations facing inherent temporal and spatial challenges. The effects of infectious diseases, whether intentionally inflicted or naturally occurring, can threaten a nation's security. Syndromic surveillance is a detection methodology...

... surveillance. Although there was an undoubted upward trend in the blood‐lead levels of the local population over the study period, it is impossible for numerous reasons to make meaningful comparisons between the various data‐sets. Problems over temporal intercomparisons mainly arose from major differences...