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From: A framework for enhancing spatial and temporal granularity in report-based health surveillance systems

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Various locations with different roles in outbreak news reports. The example was captured from news article published on CBCnews [51]. The location names occur in the news reports are not always the location of the outbreak. In the text captures illustrated in the figure, Japan, Caribbean countries, and Africa are referred to as a location where HTLV-1 usually occurs, while South Africa and U.S. are the countries that provide the medical assistance to the affected country.

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