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BMC Public Health BioMedCentral Review Open Access Beyond traditional surveillance: applying syndromic surveillance to developing settings – opportunities and challenges Larissa May*1, Jean-Paul Chretien2,3 and Julie A Pavlin4 Address: 1The George Washington University, Department of Emergency Medicine, 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 2B, Washington, DC 20037, USA, 2Division of Preventive Medicine, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, M.D, 503 Robert Grant Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA, 3Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins University School o