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Operational flowchart, EWARS in a Box, Fiji, 2016
EWARS: early warning, alert and response system; SMS: short message service.
Note: An unexpected public health event was defined as an event that may have important public health implications, but that does not involve cases of syndromes monitored by indicator-based surveillance. For example, a cluster of unusual neurological disease cases that do not meet prespecified case definitions for indicator-based surveillance.
