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23 years of WHO Disease Outbreak News reports reveal how global threats posed by disease outbreaks have shifted over time

01.25.23 | PLOS

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23 years of WHO Disease Outbreak News reports reveal how global threats posed by disease outbreaks have shifted over time
The distribution of outbreaks through time. (top) Number of reports per year, broken down to highlight the top four diseases, which are reported substantially more often than all others (see Table 1). (bottom) The proportion of total reports of a disease, across years, that occur in a given year, for the top 25 reported diseases in alphabetical order. Credit: Carlson et al., 2023, PLOS Global Public Health, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal. pgph.0001083

Article Title: The world health organization’s disease outbreak news: A retrospective database

Author Countries: United Kingdom, USA

Funding: This work was funded by the Open Philanthropy Project to RK. CJC and ALP were additionally supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (Grant G-21-58414). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

PLOS Global Public Health

10.1371/journal.pgph.0001083

The world health organization’s disease outbreak news: A retrospective database

25-Jan-2023

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Keywords

Disease Outbreaks Health and Medicine Health Care Public Health

Article Information

Journal
PLOS Global Public Health
DOI
10.1371/journal.pgph.0001083
Article Publication Date
2023-01-25
Article Title
The world health organization’s disease outbreak news: A retrospective database
COI Statement
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Contact Information

Charlotte Bhaskar
PLOS
onepress@plos.org

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APA:
PLOS. (2023, January 25). 23 years of WHO Disease Outbreak News reports reveal how global threats posed by disease outbreaks have shifted over time. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/1GRK2XE8/23-years-of-who-disease-outbreak-news-reports-reveal-how-global-threats-posed-by-disease-outbreaks-have-shifted-over-time.html
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"23 years of WHO Disease Outbreak News reports reveal how global threats posed by disease outbreaks have shifted over time." Brightsurf News, Jan. 25 2023, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/1GRK2XE8/23-years-of-who-disease-outbreak-news-reports-reveal-how-global-threats-posed-by-disease-outbreaks-have-shifted-over-time.html.