Disease outbreaks

Pandemic, epidemic diseases

• Chikungunya
• Cholera
• Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
• Ebola virus disease
• Hendra virus infection
• Influenza (pandemic, seasonal, zoonotic)
• Lassa fever
• Marburg virus disease
• Meningitis
• MERS-CoV
• Monkeypox
• Nipah virus infection
• Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
• Plague
• Rift Valley fever
• SARS
• Smallpox
• Tularaemia
• Yellow fever
• Zika virus disease

Public health interventions

WHO/E. Soteras Jalil

• Risk communication and community engagement
• OpenWHO online learning
• Training and learning
• Global emergency vaccine stockpiles
• Clinical management

Networks and initiatives

• Anticipating epidemics
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Battle Against Respiratory Viruses (BRaVe) initiative
• Communicable disease control in humanitarian emergencies
• Emerging and Dangerous Pathogens Laboratory Network (EDPLN)
• Ethics in emergencies
• Global Infection Prevention and Control Network (GIPCN)
• Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS)
• Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework
• SocialNet - A WHO network of trained social scientists
• Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Infectious Hazards (STAG-IH)
• The WHO Emerging Diseases Clinical Assessment and Response Network (EDCARN)

Disease outbreak news

• Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo
  6 February 2020
• Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – United Arab Emirates
  31 January 2020
• Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo
  30 January 2020
• Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo
  23 January 2020
• Novel Coronavirus – Republic of Korea (ex-China)
  21 January 2020

• All outbreak news

Travel advice

• WHO recommendations for international travel and trade in relation to the Listeriosis outbreak in Spain
  28 August 2019
• WHO recommendations for international traffic related to the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  19 July 2019
• Information for travellers visiting countries with Zika virus transmission
  4 July 2019
• WHO advice for international travel in relation to measles
  20 June 2019
• Health requirements and recommendations for travellers to Saudi Arabia for Hajj and Umrah
  9 June 2019
• WHO advice for international travel and trade in relation to cholera
  21 September 2018

• Travel advice archive

Managing epidemics

This resource provides concise and up-to-date knowledge on 15 infectious diseases that have the potential to become international threats, and tips on how to respond to each of them.

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