Privacy-Preserving Cross-Facility Early Warning for Unknown Epidemics

ePrint Report: Privacy-Preserving Cross-Facility Early Warning for Unknown Epidemics

Shiyu Li, Yuan Zhang, Yaqing Song, Fan Wu, Feng Lyu, Kan Yang, Qiang Tang

Syndrome-based early epidemic warning plays a vital role in preventing and controlling unknown epidemic outbreaks. It monitors the frequency of each syndrome, issues a warning if some frequency is aberrant, identifies potential epidemic outbreaks, and alerts governments as early as possible. Existing systems adopt a cloud-assisted paradigm to achieve cross-facility statistics on the syndrome frequencies. However, in …

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