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: Legionella; New York; New York City; Shigella; USA; bacteria; communicable diseases; detection; disease clustering; epidemiology; foodborne diseases; legionellosis; outbreaks; shigellosis; surveillance; zoonoses.